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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's family live in 1919?

2. When did Providence Hospital and nursing school for black women open?

3. When was John Jones elected to political office?

4. In Six: "Waste Matters," what was John T. Joyce's job?

5. When did Ferdinand Barnett marry Ida Wells?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was John Jones, and why did he come to Chicago in the 1840s?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was Packingtown like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many black men fought in the Great War. What did black men experience when they fought in the war? How did the experiences that they had affect their expectations of life when they returned home?

Essay Topic 2

There was racial segregation in Chicago in 1919. How was segregation different in Chicago than in the South? What invisible lines of segregation were there in Chicago? In what way was Chicago as segregated as the South only manifested in different ways?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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