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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. In Eight: "A Stone's Throw," when did Michael Donnelly organize a strike?
(a) July 12, 1904.
(b) August 14, 1904.
(c) August 11, 1904.
(d) July 1, 1904.

2. When was a slave catcher killed during the Christiana Resistance?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1852.

3. In what newspaper were the photographs published of people enjoying the beach in One: The Beach?
(a) Chicago Sun-Times.
(b) Chicago Eagle.
(c) Chicago Tribune.
(d) Chicago Examiner.

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

5. When was Ferdinand Barnett born?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1858.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1854.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1919, what was the name of the Clubhouse that was south of the Back of the Yards?

2. In One: "The Beach," how many blacks angered whites whey they went to the 29th Street beach and laid down on the sand?

3. How old was Ferdinand Barnett when he opened his own law office?

4. When did John Jones and Mary Richardson move to Chicago?

5. What were the dimensions of the raft that John and his friends built?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Ida B. Wells?

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

4. In the Prologue, what rage had been building in Chicago and how had it started?

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

6. Where there segregation laws in Chicago in 1919?

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

8. Where did John and his friends have a special place for their own by the water?

9. Why did the lives of blacks get more difficult in the 1850s, and what was something that they did about it?

10. What was Packingtown like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

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