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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Chicago's all-black Eight Infantry Regiment prepare to leave for the war?
(a) September.
(b) November.
(c) December.
(d) October.

2. In Ten: "Northern Fever," how many children did the Hunters take with them when they moved to Chicago?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

3. Whose home was bombed on May 16, 1919?
(a) Morrison.
(b) Williams.
(c) Peterson.
(d) Harrison.

4. In 1919, how many candidates were trying to unseat Big Bill for mayor?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

5. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when was the union ready to sign "up the masses" (123)?
(a) November.
(b) August.
(c) September.
(d) October.

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

7. In Thirteen: "Full to Bursting," how many people did a rooming-house owner house in a three-month period?
(a) 698.
(b) 711.
(c) 473.
(d) 504.

8. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when did someone explode a bomb in a black family's home?
(a) July 9.
(b) July 1.
(c) July 3.
(d) July 17.

9. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," what Polish speaker was tasked with energizing eastern Europeans to join the union?
(a) Peter. Borowicz
(b) George Golomb.
(c) John Kikulski.
(d) David Danek.

10. What police department in Ten: "Northern Fever" blocked all the train depots to stop blacks from purchasing tickets?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Hattiesburg.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Mobile.

11. In 1917, how many homes were available for 664 applicants for housing?
(a) 50.
(b) 45.
(c) 53.
(d) 48.

12. When a mob attacked a black man at a train station in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect," how many days in jail did the black man get?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

13. In 1919, what did the black workforce fall from and to from January to May?
(a) 65,000 to 50,000.
(b) 70,000 to 45,000.
(c) 50,000 to 30,000.
(d) 80,000 to 60,000.

14. In 1916, how much canned beef did American meat packers export?
(a) 50 million tons.
(b) 45 millions tons.
(c) 80 million tons.
(d) 70 million tons.

15. When did Langston Hughes arrive in Chicago?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Robert Abbott establish the Chicago Defender?

2. At the end of Seventeen: "Race Riot, how many of those who attacked blacks were arrested?

3. In 1917, how many were on the Chicago Real Estate Board committee to keep blacks out of certain neighborhoods?

4. What group did not like Big Bill because of his anti-catholic propaganda?

5. By what percent did immigration to the United States drop by between 1914 and 1917?

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