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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 immigrant workers walked out of the Argo corn refinery, how many black non-union men marched in to take their places?
(a) 600.
(b) 550.
(c) 575.
(d) 625.

2. How much did Mrs.Hunter sell her house for in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) $500.
(b) $700.
(c) $650.
(d) $800.

3. When did a Mrs. Hunter tell her son to move North for better wages in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1917.

4. What was the last name of John's friends?
(a) Williams.
(b) Davison.
(c) Andrews.
(d) Martin.

5. Between what streets was the beach where John and his friends went?
(a) 21st and 23rd.
(b) 30th and 31st.
(c) 14th and 16th.
(d) 26th and 29th.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Jesse Binga the target of two bombs?

2. In Six: "Waste Matters," what was John T. Joyce's job?

3. What was the name of a black barber who claimed to have shaved Chicago's first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln?

4. In Sixteen: "Last Straws, how many Poles grabbed a black man and told him to join the union or else?

5. On July 27, 1919, what did temperatures soar to by the height of the day?

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