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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. How were the black bathers chased away?
(a) Men, women, and children throwing rocks.
(b) Police escorting them away.
(c) A mob dragging them away.
(d) Men throwing rocks.

2. In Three: "Freedom," what trade did John Jones learn?
(a) Surveyor.
(b) Farrier.
(c) Tailor.
(d) Blacksmith.

3. In One: "The Beach," what time did John met up with his friends?
(a) 2:30 p.m.
(b) 3 p.m.
(c) 2 p.m.
(d) 3:30 p.m.

4. In One: "The Beach," how many blacks angered whites whey they went to the 29th Street beach and laid down on the sand?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

5. When was the black-owned Jesse Binga Bank opened?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1907.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many playgrounds were in Chicago in 1919?

2. What was the last name of John's friends?

3. What street car ran from north to south in Chicago in 1919?

4. When was a slave catcher killed during the Christiana Resistance?

5. When was the Chicago harbor designated by the U.S. Congress as an official port of entry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the work of women like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

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

3. Who was Ida B. Wells?

4. Why were tension rising at the 29th Street beach on July 27, 1919?

5. In One: "The Beach," what was the weather and atmosphere like in John Harris's neighborhood?

6. Where there segregation laws in Chicago in 1919?

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

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

9. What were homes like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

10. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

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