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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eighteen: Ratcheting up to Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many playgrounds were in Chicago in 1919?
(a) 82.
(b) 71.
(c) 92.
(d) 63.

2. On July 27, 1919, how much higher was the temperature than usual?
(a) 13 degrees.
(b) 14 degrees.
(c) 10 degrees.
(d) 17 degrees.

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) Sam Ransom.
(b) Bob Wilson.
(c) Robert Wiley.
(d) Dan McDaniels.

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

5. How were the black bathers chased away?
(a) Men, women, and children throwing rocks.
(b) Men throwing rocks.
(c) Police escorting them away.
(d) A mob dragging them away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What groups supported a Labor Party candidate for mayor in 1919?

2. In what direction were John and his friends from the fight on the 29th Street beach?

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

4. At the end of Eighteen: "Ratcheting Up," how many of the dead were black?

5. 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?

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