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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. When was Jesse Binga the target of two bombs?
(a) April 1919.
(b) May 1919.
(c) March 1919.
(d) February 1919.
2. Who did President Wilson appoint to arbitrate any disputes between packers and the union?
(a) Judge Samuel Alschuler.
(b) Judge William Poluski.
(c) Judge David Michaels.
(d) Judge Thomas Brighton.
3. In Sixteen: "Last Straws, how many Poles grabbed a black man and told him to join the union or else?
(a) 7 to 10.
(b) 6 to 8.
(c) 8 to 11.
(d) 4 to 5.
4. How many copies of the Defender did Robert Horton have delivered to his barbershop in Ten: "Northern Fever"?
(a) 25.
(b) 40-50.
(c) 30-40.
(d) 45.
5. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when was the union ready to sign "up the masses" (123)?
(a) October.
(b) September.
(c) August.
(d) November.
Short Answer Questions
1. By what percent did immigration to the United States drop by between 1914 and 1917?
2. What was the name of the football, track, and baseball star who traveled from Minneapolis to sign up with the Eight Infantry Regiment?
3. In Ten: "Northern Fever," where did the police confiscate the Defender?
4. How many blacks were employed at the Yard in 1918?
5. In 1917, what was the number of the Polish and Lithuanian union Local?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Twelve: "A Job, Any Job," why did Louis Swift and other industrialists like the work of T. Arnold Hill and his staff?
2. In Seventeen: "Race Riot," what happened when black bathers stormed from the 26th Street to the 29th Street beach?
3. In 1917, what was Louis Swift's goal regarding unions, and what strategy did he use that his father used?
4. What happened at the Argo corn refinery in July of 1919?
5. Before the United States entered the war, how much meat did American meat packers export?
6. In Thirteen: "Full to Bursting," why could blacks not move to different areas than the Black Belt?
7. In Eleven: "A Real Place for Negroes," who would help black migrants when they arrived by train in Chicago?
8. What happened when the early shifts at the Stock Yard ended mid-afternoon in Seventeen: "Race Riot"?
9. In Ten: "Northern Fever," how did the police in Hattiesburg try to stop the blacks from leaving the South and why did they wish to keep the blacks in the South?
10. What happened in the Black Belt at the end of Seventeen: "Race Riot"?
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