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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. What is the name of the lake near Chicago?

2. In One: "The Beach," what beach did blacks usually frequent?

3. What nationality were the men who dug a canal in Chicago in Five: "White Negroes"?

4. How old was Ferdinand Barnett when he opened his own law office?

5. How many playgrounds were in Chicago in 1919?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why were tension rising at the 29th Street beach on July 27, 1919?

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

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

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

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

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

The violence ended a week after the incident on the beach. What did Chicago do to address the issues raised by the riot? How was justice meted out after the riot, and was justice fair to all--black and white?

Essay Topic 3

Gustavus Swift entered the butchering process as an apprentice in 1855. He went on to become one of the major meat packers at Chicago's Union Stock Yard. What goals did Swift have? What problems did he have to solve to meet his goals? How did he have to use ingenuity to solve his problems?

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