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

2. In Eight: "A Stone's Throw," how many years after the Civil War ended were the first blacks hired in Union Stock Yard?

3. When did John Jones and other Chicagoans create a plan of defense against slave catchers?

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

5. How many beaches were on the lake near Chicago in 1919?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Ida B. Wells?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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