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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. What was the name of a black barber who claimed to have shaved Chicago's first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln?
(a) Davy Philipps.
(b) Andrew Miller.
(c) Wyatt Jones.
(d) Lewis Isbel.

2. What were the dimensions of the raft that John and his friends built?
(a) 10 feet long by 5 feet wide.
(b) 15 feet long by 8 feet wide.
(c) 11 feet long by 6 feet wide.
(d) 14 feet long by 9 feet wide.

3. When did Ferdinand Barnett start the first black newspaper in Chicago?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1878.
(d) 1879.

4. At the beginning of Part One, who wrote the lines of the poem quoted?
(a) Langsten Hughes.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(d) Gwendolyn Brooks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1919, what nieghborhood was bordered by Pershing to the north, Wentworth to the east, and Halstead to the west?

2. In Eight: "A Stone's Throw," when did Michael Donnelly organize a strike?

3. On July 27, 1919, how much higher was the temperature than usual?

4. Which of the boys was the first to get hit by rock in One: "The Beach"?

5. When did John Jones and other Chicagoans create a plan of defense against slave catchers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the job of a cattle butcher in Six: "Waste Matters"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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