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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Stockyards Labor Council make plans to have black laborers join the meat packing workers' union?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1918.

2. What was the name of the union newspaper in 1919?
(a) Solidarity and Freedom.
(b) New Majority.
(c) Solidarity Press.
(d) Labor and Workers.

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

4. In Ten: "Northern Fever," where did Robert Horton have his barbershop?
(a) Movile.
(b) Hattiesburg.
(c) Meridian.
(d) Birmingham.

5. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," how much of the Yard's workforce was made up of black laborers?
(a) 1/5.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/2.

6. In Ten: "Northern Fever," what should Mrs. Hunter have gotten for her house?
(a) $1,200.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $1,300.
(d) $1,400.

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

8. In 1919, what did the black workforce fall from and to from January to May?
(a) 50,000 to 30,000.
(b) 65,000 to 50,000.
(c) 80,000 to 60,000.
(d) 70,000 to 45,000.

9. In 1915, what destroyed cotton crops?
(a) Flooding.
(b) Hurricane.
(c) Boll weevil.
(d) Drought.

10. When did the Chicago Defender recommend that Southern blacks come North for employment?
(a) March 1916.
(b) February 1917.
(c) June 1915.
(d) September 1918.

11. When did immigrants and blacks leave their Chicago homes to fight in the Great War?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1918.

12. In 1919, when did a group of boys scuffle in Washington Park?
(a) April 12.
(b) May 29.
(c) June 15.
(d) July 11.

13. Who did President Wilson appoint to arbitrate any disputes between packers and the union?
(a) Judge David Michaels.
(b) Judge Samuel Alschuler.
(c) Judge Thomas Brighton.
(d) Judge William Poluski.

14. In Ten: "Northern Fever," where did the police confiscate the Defender?
(a) Sandersville.
(b) Lauderdale.
(c) Meridian.
(d) Laurel.

15. Whose home was bombed on May 16, 1919?
(a) Williams.
(b) Peterson.
(c) Harrison.
(d) Morrison.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did Mrs.Hunter sell her house for in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

2. How many bombs exploded in January 1919 on the doorsteps of real estate offices?

3. 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"?

4. At the end of Seventeen: "Race Riot, how many of those who attacked blacks were arrested?

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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