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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) A mob dragging them away.
(b) Police escorting them away.
(c) Men, women, and children throwing rocks.
(d) Men throwing rocks.

2. Between what streets was the beach where John and his friends went?
(a) 26th and 29th.
(b) 21st and 23rd.
(c) 30th and 31st.
(d) 14th and 16th.

3. What is the name of the lake near Chicago?
(a) Superior.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Ontario.
(d) Huron.

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

5. In what direction were John and his friends from the fight on the 29th Street beach?
(a) Southeast.
(b) East.
(c) North.
(d) South.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was John Harris in 1919 when he went swimming with his friends?

2. How old was Eugene Williams when he died?

3. When did Gustavus Swift die?

4. How far away was a white man throwing rocks at John and his friends on the raft?

5. What was the name of the area west of the Union Stock Yards and north of a park in 1919?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Ida B. Wells?

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

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

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

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

6. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

7. What was the unspoken rule about beaches in Chicago?

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

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

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