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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. When did Ferdinand Barnett start the first black newspaper in Chicago?

2. When was John Jones elected to political office?

3. In 1837, how many blacks lived in Chicago?

4. In One: "The Beach," how many blacks angered whites whey they went to the 29th Street beach and laid down on the sand?

5. When did Ferdinand Barnett marry Ida Wells?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who did John go to the beach with on July 27, 1919, and how did they get to the beach?

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

5. Why did John not go home immediately after Eugene's death?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A Few Red Drops is the story of a race riot in Chicago in 1919. Why is this a non-fiction, historical book rather than historical fiction?

Essay Topic 2

Lower class blacks and whites had many of the same problems. What problems were similar among lower class blacks and whites? Why did their problems not unite them? How and why did their problems put them at odds with one another?

Essay Topic 3

The riot ended in 1919, but it did not solve the problems that started it. What lessons were learned from the riot? What challenges remained after the riot? Are there still challenges that need to be address 100 years after the riot?

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