|
chicken farmer
|
|
a place of high winds
|
|
chilly water
|
|
the place of the wild onion
|
|
2. Who built the first grain reaper, dubbed "the mechanical man"?
|
|
|
Benjamin Franklin
|
|
|
Eli Whitney
|
|
|
Thomas Edison
|
|
|
Cyrus McCormick
|
|
3. In the years before Lake Michigan water was well-filtered, what did some unlucky Chicagoans find in their tap water?
|
|
|
minnows
|
|
|
arsenic
|
|
|
gasoline
|
|
|
pieces of rubber
|
|
4. In what year did a fire destroy the city?
|
|
|
1814
|
|
|
1871
|
|
|
1876
|
|
|
1929
|
|
5. After the fire, who donated books to the people of Chicago?
|
|
|
the people of Japan
|
|
|
Andrew Carnegie
|
|
|
Queen Victoria
|
|
|
Ulysses Grant
|
|
6. Which of the following products were NOT made from leftover animal parts in Chicago slaughterhouses?
|
|
|
tennis racquet strings
|
|
|
paintbrushes
|
|
|
beer pails
|
|
|
soap
|
|
7. By the late 19th century, trains no longer ran through Chicago to other destinations. They all stopped at:
|
|
|
The Loop
|
|
|
The Levee
|
|
|
Lake Michigan
|
|
|
Packingtown
|
|
8. What was Mickey Finn, a bartender in the Levee district, known for?
|
|
|
his signature whisky sours
|
|
|
pouring four drinks at once
|
|
|
slipping knockout drops into patrons' drinks, then robbing them
|
|
|
his deep tenor singing voice
|
|
9. Jane Addams's settlement house in the Near West Side was called:
|
|
|
Hillel House
|
|
|
Hull-House
|
|
|
the White House
|
|
|
the Addams Mansion
|
|
10. Which of the following could Chicagoans NOT do in a 19th-century saloon?
|
|
|
deposit valuables in a safe
|
|
|
get a haircut
|
|
|
receive mail
|
|
|
spit
|
|
11. The Columbian Exposition of 1893 was held to commemorate:
|
|
|
the closing of the American frontier
|
|
|
the ratification of the Constitution
|
|
|
the founding of the District of Columbia
|
|
|
Columbus's voyage to America
|
|
12. What was the occupation of George Ferris, inventor of the first Ferris wheel?
|
|
|
hotdog vendor
|
|
|
amusement park owner
|
|
|
bridge designer
|
|
|
steelworker
|
|
13. Which Native American people were driven from the Chicago area after 1830?
|
|
|
Navajo
|
|
|
Cherokee
|
|
|
Potawatomi
|
|
|
Wampanoag
|
|
14. Why did Boston sanitary engineer Ellis Chesbrough come to Chicago in 1855?
|
|
|
to clean up Chicago slaughterhouses
|
|
|
to build sewers above the swampy Chicago terrain
|
|
|
to assess the quality of Lake Michigan's water
|
|
|
to reduce the amount of grain rot in grain elevators
|
|
15. Chicago's pork-packing industry surpassed that of which city by 1862?
|
|
|
New York City
|
|
|
Cincinnati, Ohio
|
|
|
Vicksburg, Mississippi
|
|
|
Richmond, Virginia
|
|
16. Before the Civil War, a small number of black Americans settled in which Chicago area formerly occupied by German immigrants?
|
|
|
Pilsen
|
|
|
South Side
|
|
|
Edgewater
|
|
|
North Side
|
|
17. How did Chicago's downtown Loop originate?
|
|
|
Builder Charles Yerkes placed trolley stops only near businesses that paid him bribes.
|
|
|
Chicago's main businesses happened to be arranged in a rough loop.
|
|
|
Chicago politicians could not agree on which neighborhood to run the system to first.
|
|
|
Marshall Field ran cable cars in a loop from points around the city to his store.
|
|
18. How did young Marshall Field save money to start his retail business?
|
|
|
He slept at work to avoid paying rent.
|
|
|
He ate only one meal a day.
|
|
|
He systematically stole from his employer.
|
|
|
He made good investments in real estate.
|
|
19. Which of the following is NOT true about Socialist Albert Parsons?
|
|
|
He worked as a typesetter.
|
|
|
He grew up in Germany.
|
|
|
His ancestors arrived on the Mayflower.
|
|
|
He fought for the Confederacy.
|
|
20. How many police officers were killed at Haymarket Square in the 19th century's most sensational labor incident?
|
|
|
one
|
|
|
three
|
|
|
five
|
|
|
seven
|
|
21. Alderman Johnny Powers won votes by all but which one of these methods?
|
|
|
giving away six tons of Christmas turkeys
|
|
|
making impassioned speeches on behalf of the poor
|
|
|
attending six or seven funerals a night
|
|
|
getting people out of jail
|
|
22. In 1889, this new Chicago landmark was the largest building in the world.
|
|
|
the Auditorium
|
|
|
Fort Dearborn
|
|
|
the Sears Tower
|
|
|
the Water Tower
|
|
23. Which democratic innovation did architect Louis Sullivan introduce into the Auditorium's design?
|
|
|
There were no luxury boxes.
|
|
|
All seats were the same distance from the stage.
|
|
|
Each seat had a cup-holder.
|
|
|
Individual seats were replaced with benches.
|
|
24. Socialist firebrand Florence Kelley did NOT achieve which of these reforms in 1893?
|
|
|
the eight-hour workday
|
|
|
a ban on child labor
|
|
|
the half-hour lunch break
|
|
|
regular inspection of factories
|
