Plan to write answers in short essays of about 400 words. While the length of each of your answers may vary slightly, the entire exam must be no shorter than 1,600 words. That said, the quality of your answers is most important when it comes to grades.
1. Upward mobility is an important theme of Packinghouse Daughter by Cheri Register. Write an essay about how within Register’s family, ideas and plans for how to achieve upward mobility differed. Provide examples from the memoir in your essay.
2. “Revolution starts with self-love,” states one of the commentators in the documentary about Dolores Huerta. How did Huerta demonstrate this idea in her private and public lives? Provide examples from the documentary in your answer.
3. Rioting and police violence play a large role in the history of the US and persists as a social problem. From a historical perspective, how did rioting shape the history of segregation in Chicago? Provide examples from Family Properties.
4. The chapter “King in Chicago” in Family Properties presents an argument that housing, and the quest for justice in housing, was a key part of the civil rights movement. Explain how housing not only discriminated against African Americans and other minorities, but it kept them poor, and concentrated wealth and power in the hands of European Americans. What roles did MLK, LJB, and Mayor Daley play in this narrative?
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