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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eighteen: Ratcheting up to Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many indictments were brought for the beatings, shootings, stabbings, and arson during the summer of 1919?
(a) 134.
(b) 128.
(c) 148.
(d) 111.

2. Who was the policeman working the 29th Street beach when John and his friends had rocks thrown at them?
(a) Officer Mick O'Malley.
(b) Officer William Morrison.
(c) Officer Daniel Callahan.
(d) Officer Peter O'Halloran.

3. How were the black bathers chased away?
(a) Men, women, and children throwing rocks.
(b) Police escorting them away.
(c) A mob dragging them away.
(d) Men throwing rocks.

4. How many blacks and white were appointed after the 1919 riot to study the factors that led to the riot and make recommendations on how to move forward?
(a) 10 whites and 2 blacks.
(b) 6 blacks and 6 whites.
(c) 8 whites and 4 blacks.
(d) 12 blacks and 12 whites.

5. What group did not like Big Bill because of his anti-catholic propaganda?
(a) Polish.
(b) Lithuanians.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the weather like on the day that John Turner Harris's life changed?

2. How much did Mrs.Hunter sell her house for in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

3. By the end of the night in Eighteen: "Ratcheting Up," how many were injured and dead?

4. In One: "The Beach," how many blacks angered whites whey they went to the 29th Street beach and laid down on the sand?

5. How far away was a white man throwing rocks at John and his friends on the raft?

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