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

2. In One: "The Beach," what time did John met up with his friends?

3. What was the name of the area west of the Union Stock Yards and north of a park in 1919?

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

5. Who was the policeman working the 29th Street beach when John and his friends had rocks thrown at them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

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

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

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

7. Where there segregation laws in Chicago in 1919?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Irish were more likely to join unions, but some blacks did join. What experiences did blacks have with unions? How were they disillusioned regarding unions? Why did blacks become reluctant to join labor unions?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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