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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. How far were the city stockyards from John's home?

2. Where was Eugene Williams born?

3. How old was John Harris in 1919 when he went swimming with his friends?

4. How many playgrounds were in Chicago in 1919?

5. What could be smelled in John's family home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where there segregation laws in Chicago in 1919?

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

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

4. In One: "The Beach," what was the weather and atmosphere like in John Harris's neighborhood?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Both the title of the book and Carl Sandburg’s poem reference “red drops of blood.” What do the red drops of blood symbolize?

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