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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On July 27, 1919, what did temperatures soar to by the height of the day?
(a) 98 degrees.
(b) 97 degrees.
(c) 96 degrees.
(d) 99 degrees.

2. Where did Gustavius Franklin Swift start his company?
(a) Boston.
(b) Cape Cod.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Denver.

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

4. In 1919, what nieghborhood was bordered by Pershing to the north, Wentworth to the east, and Halstead to the west?
(a) Bridgeport.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Canaryville.
(d) Martinsville.

5. On July 27, 1919, how much higher was the temperature than usual?
(a) 10 degrees.
(b) 17 degrees.
(c) 14 degrees.
(d) 13 degrees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Eugene Williams born?

2. By what date in Seven: "Parallel Universes," did one of every three babies in Packingtown die before the age of two?

3. What was the first state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment?

4. In Seven: "Parallel Universes," how many saloons were on Whiskey Row?

5. What nationality were the men who dug a canal in Chicago in Five: "White Negroes"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did John not go home immediately after Eugene's death?

2. How many blacks were employed by the Union Stock Yard after the Civil War?

3. Who was John Jones, and why did he come to Chicago in the 1840s?

4. Who was Ida B. Wells?

5. What happened when the raft that John and his friends were using drifted near the 29th Street beach?

6. What type of work did Irishmen perform when the Chicago canal was built?

7. Why did John and his friends run to the beach after hitching a ride?

8. In 1919, where could people go outside and what could to they do?

9. What were the only ways that Chicagoans could keep cool in the type of heat wave that was occurring in July of 1919?

10. Who did John go to the beach with on July 27, 1919, and how did they get to the beach?

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