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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 Three: "Freedom," what trade did John Jones learn?
(a) Tailor.
(b) Farrier.
(c) Surveyor.
(d) Blacksmith.
2. How far away was a white man throwing rocks at John and his friends on the raft?
(a) 75 feet.
(b) 100 feet.
(c) 90 feet.
(d) 70 feet.
3. How old was John Harris in 1919 when he went swimming with his friends?
(a) 13.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.
4. In what direction were John and his friends from the fight on the 29th Street beach?
(a) Southeast.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) East.
5. Which of the boys was the first to get hit by rock in One: "The Beach"?
(a) Charles.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Paul.
(d) Eugene.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many playgrounds were in Chicago in 1919?
2. On July 27, 1919, what did temperatures soar to by the height of the day?
3. When did Gustavus Swift die?
4. When did Providence Hospital and nursing school for black women open?
5. When did John Jones and other Chicagoans create a plan of defense against slave catchers?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was John Jones, and why did he come to Chicago in the 1840s?
2. Where did John and his friends have a special place for their own by the water?
3. What was the unspoken rule about beaches in Chicago?
4. Why did the lives of blacks get more difficult in the 1850s, and what was something that they did about it?
5. What were the only ways that Chicagoans could keep cool in the type of heat wave that was occurring in July of 1919?
6. Why did John not go home immediately after Eugene's death?
7. How did Gustavus Swift change the meat packing industry?
8. What were homes like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?
9. What type of work did Irishmen perform when the Chicago canal was built?
10. What happened when the raft that John and his friends were using drifted near the 29th Street beach?
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