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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Jones's mother send him to learn a trade?

2. At the beginning of Part One, who wrote the lines of the poem quoted?

3. In what month did a race riot begin in 1919?

4. What was the name of the Chicago neighborhood where the Urban League Offices were located in 1919?

5. What street car ran from north to south in Chicago in 1919?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was the first strike called at the stockyards and how successful was it?

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

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

4. Who was Ida B. Wells?

5. How did Gustavus Swift change the meat packing industry?

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

7. In the Prologue, what rage had been building in Chicago and how had it started?

8. In 1919, where could people go outside and what could to they do?

9. How many blacks were employed by the Union Stock Yard after the Civil War?

10. What happened when the raft that John and his friends were using drifted near the 29th Street beach?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Southern blacks were met at the train depot in Chicago by blacks and white who helped them assimilate into life in Chicago. What groups helped Southern blacks assimilate into life in Chicago? What did those efforts reveal about black solidarity?

Essay Topic 2

Blacks often had the worse jobs at the lowest pay. How were black exploited on the job? What was the consequence of the economic inequality that blacks faced?

Essay Topic 3

Southern blacks were different in a number of ways from Northern blacks. What were some differences between Southern and Northern blacks? Why did whites not see the differences between Northern and Southern blacks? How did those perceptions add to stereotypes of all blacks?

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