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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 Ten: "Northern Fever," what should Mrs. Hunter have gotten for her house?
(a) $1,300.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $1,400.
(d) $1,200.

2. When was the Chicago harbor designated by the U.S. Congress as an official port of entry?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1873.

3. Between what streets was the beach where John and his friends went?
(a) 14th and 16th.
(b) 26th and 29th.
(c) 30th and 31st.
(d) 21st and 23rd.

4. In Eight: "A Stone's Throw," how many years after the Civil War ended were the first blacks hired in Union Stock Yard?
(a) 11.
(b) 18.
(c) 9.
(d) 16.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality were the men who dug a canal in Chicago in Five: "White Negroes"?

2. How many people lived in Chicago in 1837?

3. At the beginning of Part One, who wrote the lines of the poem quoted?

4. In 1916, how much profit did Louis Swift clear?

5. How many acres was the Union Stockyards in Six: "Waste Matters"?

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