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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 many playgrounds were in Chicago in 1919?
(a) 82.
(b) 71.
(c) 63.
(d) 92.

2. On July 27, 1919, what did temperatures soar to by the height of the day?
(a) 97 degrees.
(b) 98 degrees.
(c) 99 degrees.
(d) 96 degrees.

3. When did John Jones and Mary Richardson move to Chicago?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1844.

4. Where was Eugene Williams born?
(a) Alabama.
(b) South Carollina.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.

5. What nationality were the men who dug a canal in Chicago in Five: "White Negroes"?
(a) Irish.
(b) German.
(c) Lithuanian.
(d) Polish.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Gustavius Franklin Swift start his company?

3. In 1919, what nieghborhood was bordered by Pershing to the north, Wentworth to the east, and Halstead to the west?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was John Jones, and why did he come to Chicago in the 1840s?

3. What was the job of a cattle butcher in Six: "Waste Matters"?

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

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

6. What was the work of women like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

7. What were homes like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

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

9. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

10. What was the unspoken rule about beaches in Chicago?

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