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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What police department in Ten: "Northern Fever" blocked all the train depots to stop blacks from purchasing tickets?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Mobile.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Hattiesburg.

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

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

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

6. 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?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

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

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

9. How many mounted police were posted in the Stock Yard to break up union gatherings in 1919?
(a) 250.
(b) 530.
(c) 300.
(d) 415.

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

11. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when was the union ready to sign "up the masses" (123)?
(a) October.
(b) August.
(c) September.
(d) November.

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

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

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

15. 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) Robert Wiley.
(c) Sam Ransom.
(d) Bob Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Robert Abbott establish the Chicago Defender?

2. How many blacks were employed at the Yard in 1918?

3. What was a judges decision regarding disputes between packers and their workers in 1918?

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

5. Whose home was bombed on May 16, 1919?

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