History of Chicago

Read this sentence from the “Chicago History” text.

“It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them.” ~Mark Twain, 1883

What conclusion may best be drawn from the Mark Twain’s description?

• Chicago is a hopeless place to visit.

• Chicago grows so fast that visitors can’t keep up with predicted changes.

• Chicago outgrows other cities.

• Visitors make prophecies when they visit Chicago.

Read this excerpt from the “Chicago History” text.

Chicago’s first permanent resident was a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a free black man apparently from Haiti, who came here in the late 1770s. In 1795, the U.S. government build Fort Dearborn at what is now the corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive (look for the bronze markers in the pavement). It was burned to the ground by Native Americans in 1812, rebuilt and demolished in 1857.

The text structures of this paragraph can best be described as:

• Descriptive text structure and Point of View text structure

• Spatial text structure and Descriptive text structure

• Chronological or Time Sequence text structure and Descriptive text structure

• Compare and Contrast text structure and Problem Solution text structure

The overall tone of the “Chicago History” text can best be described as:

• Witty

• Expectant

• Direct

• Resigned

Which book would be most useful in learning more about the history of Chicago?

• Destination: Chicago Jazz

• Chicago: A Photographic Celebration

• The Coast of Chicago

• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Read this excerpt from the text “Chicago History.”

“It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them.” Mark Twain, 1883

Chicago was only 46 years old when Mark Twain wrote those words, but it had already grown more than 100-fold, from a small trading post at the mouth of the Chicago River

into one of the nation’s largest cities, and it wasn’t about to stop. Over the next 20 years, it would quadruple in population, amazing the rest of the world with its ability to

repeatedly reinvent itself.

Which three phrases from this excerpt convey the author’s intent to capture Chicago’s expansion?

You must select all three correct phrases for your answer to be correct.

• “She outgrows his prophecies”

• “Grown more than 100-fold”

• “Wasn’t about to stop”

• “Quadruple in population”

• “Ability to repeatedly reinvent itself”

Read this selection from the “Chicago History” text:

In the half-century following the Great Fire, waves of immigrants came to Chicago to take jobs in the factories and meatpacking plants. Many poor workers and their

families found help in settlement houses operated by Jane Addams and her followers. Her Hull House Museum is located at 800 S. Halsted St.

Based on this selection, the reader may best infer that:

• Chicago settlement houses ministered to new comers.

• All Chicagoans demonstrated their hospitality.

• Immigrants were self-sustaining.

• Jane Addams operated Hull House Museums.

In the “Chicago History” text, read this sentence from the paragraph entitled “A Trading Center”:

The completion of the Illinois & Michigan Canal in 1848 created a water link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, but the canal was soon rendered obsolete by railroads.

In this sentence, the word rendered means:

• To do or perform

• To become or to make

• To exhibit or show

• To furnish or provide

In the “Chicago History” text, which of the following words does NOT contribute to the general tone of the passage?

• Direct

• Unambiguous

• Straightforward

• Indifferent

Read this sentence from the paragraph entitled “The Great Fire of 1871”:

“As Chicago grew, its residents took dauntless measures to keep pace.”

In this sentence, the word dauntless does NOT mean:

• Brave

• Heroic

• Gallant

• Apprehensive

Which organizational plan is used in the sentence below:

“In the 1850s, they raised many of the streets five to eight feet to install a sewer system…”

• Point of View text structure

• Narrative text structure

• Spatial text structure

• Compare and Contrast text structure