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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A reporter from which newspaper described the sounds associated with the disaster called the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) The Boston Review.
(b) The Boston Herald.
(c) The Boston Gazette.
(d) The Boston Post.

2. 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) Philadelphia.
(d) Charleston.

3. For what reason did men lining the suffrage parade route in Washington, D.C. begin "surging into the streets" (45)?
(a) To carry the marchers along.
(b) To block the marchers.
(c) To rip off the marchers' clothing.
(d) To provide the marchers with water and food.

4. How many millions of gallons of molasses were inside the tank when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?
(a) 47.
(b) 11.4.
(c) 321.
(d) 2.3.

5. Modern studies have shown that the two causes of the Great Molasses Flood were shoddy construction and an explosion caused by what?
(a) A bomb.
(b) Arson.
(c) Fermentation.
(d) A lit cigarette.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many floats participated within Alice Paul's suffrage parade and march in 1913?

2. Woman's Era was the title of "the first periodical published in the United States" (38) by whom?

3. How many tons of molasses poured out of the USIA company's huge container, igniting the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

4. What was the first name of Ogden, the man who was put in charge of determining criminal and civil liability for USIA after the Great Molasses Flood?

5. USIA bought up as much molasses as possible before Prohibition in order to make and sell what type of alcohol?

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