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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the Chicago neighborhood where the Urban League Offices were located in 1919?
(a) Irving Park.
(b) River North.
(c) Albany Park.
(d) Black Belt.

3. In Eight: "A Stone's Throw," how many years after the Civil War ended were the first blacks hired in Union Stock Yard?
(a) 11.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 9.

4. When did Ferdinand Barnett marry Ida Wells?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1893.

5. In One: "The Beach," what time did John met up with his friends?
(a) 2 p.m.
(b) 3 p.m.
(c) 2:30 p.m.
(d) 3:30 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the lake near Chicago?

2. In 1919, what day of the week did John Harris and his friends go to the beach?

3. How did John and his friends get partway to the beach?

4. When was John Jones elected to political office?

5. When did Michael Donnelly end the strike he called in Eight: "A Stone's Throw"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did John go to the beach with on July 27, 1919, and how did they get to the beach?

2. Why did John not go home immediately after Eugene's death?

3. What happened when the raft that John and his friends were using drifted near the 29th Street beach?

4. In One: "The Beach," what was the weather and atmosphere like in John Harris's neighborhood?

5. What was Packingtown like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

6. What were the only ways that Chicagoans could keep cool in the type of heat wave that was occurring in July of 1919?

7. How many blacks were employed by the Union Stock Yard after the Civil War?

8. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

9. In the Prologue, what rage had been building in Chicago and how had it started?

10. Where did John and his friends have a special place for their own by the water?

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