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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the circulation of the Chicago Defender in 1919?
(a) 44,000.
(b) 33,000.
(c) 90,000.
(d) 130,000.

2. When was a novel published about Packingtown's crumbling, disease prone community?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1897.

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

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

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

6. When did Langston Hughes arrive in Chicago?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1920.

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

8. What was the number of the Chicago Irish Regiment in World War I?
(a) Ninth.
(b) Seventh.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Fifth.

9. In Ten: "Northern Fever," how much time were Southern black children allowed to attend school?
(a) 4 months.
(b) A couple months.
(c) A few months.
(d) 3 months.

10. In 1917, what was the number of the Polish and Lithuanian union Local?
(a) 205.
(b) 554.
(c) 693.
(d) 411.

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

12. How many copies of the Defender did Robert Horton have delivered to his barbershop in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) 25.
(b) 40-50.
(c) 45.
(d) 30-40.

13. What groups supported a Labor Party candidate for mayor in 1919?
(a) Lithuanians and Germans.
(b) Austrians and Czechs.
(c) Irish and Poles.
(d) Poles and Lithuanians.

14. When did the war end?
(a) November 9, 1918.
(b) November 5, 1918.
(c) November 11, 1918.
(d) November 13, 1918.

15. During the Great War, how many aircraft engines needed to be produced in two years?
(a) 11,500.
(b) About 17,000.
(c) Nearly 18,000.
(d) 16,700.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Jesse Binga the target of two bombs?

2. In 1918, how many black migrants were settled into Chicago?

3. In Ten: "Northern Fever," where did the police confiscate the Defender?

4. How many flyers were handed out on the street encouraging union membership in Fifteen: "Tensions Rising"?

5. When did Robert Abbott establish the Chicago Defender?

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