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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Red Summer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many black sharecroppers attended the meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union meeting on September 30, 1919?
(a) 300.
(b) 500.
(c) 100.
(d) 30.

2. To what city did Al Capone move in the year 1920?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Las Vegas.

3. In what city was the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association the year Alice Paul attended?
(a) Macon.
(b) New York City.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. What job was Royal Albert Leeman performing when he helped avoid a greater death toll than the Great Molasses Flood had already caused?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Surgeon.
(c) Brakeman.
(d) Auto mechanic.

5. In what month of 1919 did the Great Molasses Flood take place?
(a) June.
(b) April.
(c) January.
(d) November.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1916, the membership of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage had grown to what size?

2. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?

3. Around what time of day did the Great Molasses Flood commence?

4. A reporter from which newspaper described the sounds associated with the disaster called the Great Molasses Flood?

5. The NAACP sent letters of warning to how many different newspapers, telling them that they were "sowing the seeds of a race riot by their inflammatory headlines" (74)?

(see the answer key)

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