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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fifteen: Tension Rising to Seventeen: Race Riot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Six: "Waste Matters," what was John T. Joyce's job?
(a) Day laborer.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Cattle butcher.
(d) Street sweeper.

2. At the beginning of Part One, who wrote the lines of the poem quoted?
(a) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(d) Langsten Hughes.

3. What was the name of the football, track, and baseball star who traveled from Minneapolis to sign up with the Eight Infantry Regiment?
(a) Dan McDaniels.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) Sam Ransom.
(d) Robert Wiley.

4. In 1837, how many blacks lived in Chicago?
(a) 62.
(b) 77.
(c) 84.
(d) 103.

5. How much did a girl who was making $2 a week in Meridian say that she was making a day in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) $3 per day.
(b) $2 per day.
(c) $5 a week.
(d) $8 a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many playgrounds were in Chicago in 1919?

2. How many flyers were handed out on the street encouraging union membership in Fifteen: "Tensions Rising"?

3. In Thirteen: "Full to Bursting," how many people did a rooming-house owner house in a three-month period?

4. When a mob attacked a black man at a train station in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect," how many days in jail did the black man get?

5. How many mounted police were posted in the Stock Yard to break up union gatherings in 1919?

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