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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fifteen: Tension Rising to Seventeen: Race Riot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Michael Donnelly end the strike he called in Eight: "A Stone's Throw"?
(a) October 11, 1904.
(b) September 23, 1904.
(c) October 3, 1904.
(d) September 8, 1904.

2. What was the name of the man who killed Eugene Williams?
(a) Steven Davis.
(b) John Martin.
(c) Daniel Wyatt.
(d) George Stauber.

3. How much did a girl who was making $2 a week in Meridian say that she was making a day in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) $3 per day.
(b) $8 a week.
(c) $2 per day.
(d) $5 a week.

4. What was the southernmost city that the Illinois Central Railroad traveled to?
(a) Biloxi.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Mobile.
(d) Birmingham.

5. When did Ferdinand Barnett start the first black newspaper in Chicago?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1919, when did a group of boys scuffle in Washington Park?

2. When did the Stockyards Labor Council make plans to have black laborers join the meat packing workers' union?

3. When did Chicago's all-black Eight Infantry Regiment prepare to leave for the war?

4. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when did someone explode a bomb in a black family's home?

5. When did Judge Alschuler increase wages in the packing industry for a second time?

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