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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 much did a girl who was making $2 a week in Meridian say that she was making a day in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) $8 a week.
(b) $2 per day.
(c) $5 a week.
(d) $3 per day.

2. What group did not like Big Bill because of his anti-catholic propaganda?
(a) Irish.
(b) Lithuanians.
(c) Polish.
(d) Blacks.

3. How many blacks were employed at the Yard in 1918?
(a) 13,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) More than 10,000.
(d) About 11,000.

4. In 1919, what did the black workforce fall from and to from January to May?
(a) 70,000 to 45,000.
(b) 80,000 to 60,000.
(c) 65,000 to 50,000.
(d) 50,000 to 30,000.

5. How many bombs exploded in January 1919 on the doorsteps of real estate offices?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," what Polish speaker was tasked with energizing eastern Europeans to join the union?

2. In Ten: "The Northern Fever," how much did Mr. Henderson earn monthly working for the railroad?

3. During the Great War, how many aircraft engines needed to be produced in two years?

4. When a mob attacked a black man at a train station in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect," how many days in jail did the black man get?

5. When did Langston Hughes arrive in Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 1917 what call did President Woodrow Wilson make and how did immigrants and blacks respond?

2. What happened when the early shifts at the Stock Yard ended mid-afternoon in Seventeen: "Race Riot"?

3. In Eleven: "A Real Place for Negroes," who would help black migrants when they arrived by train in Chicago?

4. What was the situation throughout 1918 as migrants continued to move to Chicago?

5. In Twelve: "A Job, Any Job," why did Louis Swift and other industrialists like the work of T. Arnold Hill and his staff?

6. What was the goal of the Chicago Real Estate Board and how did they try to achieve their goals?

7. In Seventeen: "Race Riot," what happened when black bathers stormed from the 26th Street to the 29th Street beach?

8. What was different about dress and behavior of Northern and Southern blacks in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect"?

9. What happened at the Argo corn refinery in July of 1919?

10. Before the United States entered the war, how much meat did American meat packers export?

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