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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 many copies of the Defender did Robert Horton have delivered to his barbershop in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) 30-40.
(b) 45.
(c) 40-50.
(d) 25.

2. When was a novel published about Packingtown's crumbling, disease prone community?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1906.

3. When did the Stockyards Labor Council make plans to have black laborers join the meat packing workers' union?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1916.

4. What was the southernmost city that the Illinois Central Railroad traveled to?
(a) Biloxi.
(b) Mobile.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Birmingham.

5. 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?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what percent did immigration to the United States drop by between 1914 and 1917?

2. What was the number of the union branch established in the Black Belt in Fifteen: "Tensions Rising"?

3. When did Robert Abbott establish the Chicago Defender?

4. When did the Chicago Defender recommend that Southern blacks come North for employment?

5. In 1916, how much profit did Louis Swift clear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did blacks help elect Republican William Thompson as mayor in 1915?

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

3. Who was running against Bill Thompson in 1919?

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

5. In March 1919, what did A. L. Jackson say about the mindset of the returned black soldier?

6. Why wre blacks worried in 1919 about jobs, and what seemed to confirm their worries?

7. How did the Urban League and YMCA help blacks adapt to life in Chicago in Eleven: "A Real Place for Negroes"?

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

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

10. In Ten: "Northern Fever," how did the police in Hattiesburg try to stop the blacks from leaving the South and why did they wish to keep the blacks in the South?

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