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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. What was the circulation of the Chicago Defender in 1919?
(a) 90,000.
(b) 130,000.
(c) 33,000.
(d) 44,000.

2. When was the black-owned Jesse Binga Bank opened?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1909.

3. How many people lived in Chicago in 1837?
(a) 4,066.
(b) 3,143.
(c) 5,122.
(d) 2,981.

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

5. What was the number of the union branch established in the Black Belt in Fifteen: "Tensions Rising"?
(a) Local 651.
(b) Local 294.
(c) Local 317.
(d) Local 411.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Eight: "A Stone's Throw," when did Michael Donnelly organize a strike?

2. What was a judges decision regarding disputes between packers and their workers in 1918?

3. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when was the union ready to sign "up the masses" (123)?

4. When did Anatanas Kaztauskis come to Chicago from Lithuania?

5. In Ten: "Northern Fever," where did Robert Horton have his barbershop?

(see the answer key)

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