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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Seven: "Parallel Universes," how many saloons were on Whiskey Row?
(a) More than 500.
(b) 380.
(c) 510.
(d) About 490.

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

3. How many beaches were on the lake near Chicago in 1919?
(a) 4.
(b) 16.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

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

5. In 1919, what day of the week did John Harris and his friends go to the beach?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Saturday.

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

7. Which of the boys was the first to get hit by rock in One: "The Beach"?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) Paul.
(c) Eugene.
(d) Charles.

8. In 1919, what was the name of the Clubhouse that was south of the Back of the Yards?
(a) Ragen's Colts.
(b) Dukies.
(c) Shielders.
(d) Torrio's.

9. When did Providence Hospital and nursing school for black women open?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1891.

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

11. When did John Jones and Mary Richardson move to Chicago?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1844.

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

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

14. In what month did a race riot begin in 1919?
(a) July.
(b) June.
(c) August.
(d) September.

15. Where did John Jones's mother send him to learn a trade?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Ferdinand Barnett when he opened his own law office?

2. How far away was a white man throwing rocks at John and his friends on the raft?

3. In Three: "Freedom," what trade did John Jones learn?

4. In One: "The Beach," what was the date that changed John Turner Harri's life?

5. When was John Jones elected to political office?

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