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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group did not like Big Bill because of his anti-catholic propaganda?
(a) Irish.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Lithuanians.
(d) Polish.

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

3. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when did someone explode a bomb in a black family's home?
(a) July 9.
(b) July 3.
(c) July 1.
(d) July 17.

4. In 1917, how many were on the Chicago Real Estate Board committee to keep blacks out of certain neighborhoods?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

5. How tall was the Chicago Illinois Central station vaulted ceiling in the waiting room?
(a) 45 feet.
(b) 75 feet.
(c) 50 feet.
(d) 60 feet.

6. Between march 1918 and the end of the year, how many bombs were exploded at the offices of black real estate agents and homes of black families?
(a) 13.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 18.

7. In 1910, what percent of blacks were living in the South?
(a) 70%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 35%.

8. In 1916, how much profit did Louis Swift clear?
(a) $13 million.
(b) $9 million.
(c) $20 million.
(d) $11 million.

9. When did Judge Alschuler increase wages in the packing industry for a second time?
(a) February 1919.
(b) March 1919.
(c) January 1919.
(d) April 1919.

10. When did Chicago's all-black Eight Infantry Regiment prepare to leave for the war?
(a) September.
(b) December.
(c) October.
(d) November.

11. At the end of Seventeen: "Race Riot, how many of those who attacked blacks were arrested?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

12. In April of 1919, how many bombs exploded?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

13. How many bombs exploded in January 1919 on the doorsteps of real estate offices?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

14. In 1919, what was the membership of Olivet Baptist?
(a) 5,934.
(b) 8,430.
(c) 4,271.
(d) 6,033.

15. How much did a girl who was making $2 a week in Meridian say that she was making a day in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) $3 per day.
(b) $5 a week.
(c) $8 a week.
(d) $2 per day.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Ten: "Northern Fever," where did Robert Horton have his barbershop?

2. When immigrant workers walked out of the Argo corn refinery, how many black non-union men marched in to take their places?

3. How many mounted police were posted in the Stock Yard to break up union gatherings in 1919?

4. What was the circulation of the Chicago Defender in 1919?

5. When was a novel published about Packingtown's crumbling, disease prone community?

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