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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. What street car ran from north to south in Chicago in 1919?
(a) State Street.
(b) 43rd Street.
(c) 47th Street.
(d) Pershing.

2. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," what Polish speaker was tasked with energizing eastern Europeans to join the union?
(a) John Kikulski.
(b) George Golomb.
(c) David Danek.
(d) Peter. Borowicz

3. When did Anatanas Kaztauskis come to Chicago from Lithuania?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1911.

4. In Ten: "Northern Fever," how many children did the Hunters take with them when they moved to Chicago?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

5. In Sixteen: "Last Straws, how many Poles grabbed a black man and told him to join the union or else?
(a) 8 to 11.
(b) 7 to 10.
(c) 6 to 8.
(d) 4 to 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John Jones born?

2. In Ten: "Northern Fever," how much time were Southern black children allowed to attend school?

3. In 1917, how many were on the Chicago Real Estate Board committee to keep blacks out of certain neighborhoods?

4. In 1917, what was the number of the Polish and Lithuanian union Local?

5. What hours did Kaztauskis work his first day at the stockyards?

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