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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Eugene Williams when he died?

3. In July of 1919, how many people did the Chicago Tribune say could go to the beaches?

4. What nationality were the men who dug a canal in Chicago in Five: "White Negroes"?

5. When did Anatanas Kaztauskis come to Chicago from Lithuania?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where there segregation laws in Chicago in 1919?

4. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

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

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

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

8. Who was Ida B. Wells?

9. What type of work did Irishmen perform when the Chicago canal was built?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Southern blacks were different in a number of ways from Northern blacks. What were some differences between Southern and Northern blacks? Why did whites not see the differences between Northern and Southern blacks? How did those perceptions add to stereotypes of all blacks?

Essay Topic 2

Gustavus Swift entered the butchering process as an apprentice in 1855. He went on to become one of the major meat packers at Chicago's Union Stock Yard. What goals did Swift have? What problems did he have to solve to meet his goals? How did he have to use ingenuity to solve his problems?

Essay Topic 3

Lower class blacks and whites had many of the same problems. What problems were similar among lower class blacks and whites? Why did their problems not unite them? How and why did their problems put them at odds with one another?

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