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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Strikes and More Strikes - Chapter 6: A Noble Experiment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 16.

2. What fraction of the labor force in the United States was involved in a work stoppage of some sort during 1919?
(a) One-third.
(b) One-fifth.
(c) One-sixth.
(d) One-eighth.

3. On what date in 1919 did a major race riot begin in Washington, D.C.?
(a) June 30.
(b) July 4.
(c) July 6.
(d) July 19.

4. What job was Frank McManus performing when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?
(a) He was a paramedic.
(b) He was a firefighter.
(c) He was a streetsweeper.
(d) He was a policeman.

5. Superintendent Michael Crowley was "one of the few members of the Boston police force" (128) to remain on duty. What was NOT a sight he saw on the first night of the strike?
(a) Cars set on fire.
(b) Carriages overturned.
(c) Women being assaulted.
(d) Off-duty police officers being assaulted.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was a policeman stabbed and killed during a 1919 May Day labor movement event?

2. The era of Prohibition was brought about by which amendment to the US Constitution?

3. The Volstead Act began to be enforced throughout the United States in what year?

4. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what city?

5. In what month of 1919 did the Senate make it clear to A. Mitchell Palmer that "if he did not move boldly against the Red menace," (102) he risked being removed from office?

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