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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. 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?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

2. When did a Mrs. Hunter tell her son to move North for better wages in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1917.

3. How many blacks were employed at the Yard in 1918?
(a) More than 10,000.
(b) About 11,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 13,000.

4. When was John Jones elected to political office?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1873.

5. How many friends did John meet with in One: "The Beach"?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ferdinand Barnett start the first black newspaper in Chicago?

2. In July of 1919, how many people did the Chicago Tribune say could go to the beaches?

3. How far was the beach from John's home?

4. At the end of Seventeen: "Race Riot, how many of those who attacked blacks were arrested?

5. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when did someone explode a bomb in a black family's home?

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