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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 Western states had already granted women the right to vote by the time a national women's suffrage law was passed?
(a) 14.
(b) 9.
(c) 21.
(d) 11.

2. How many tons of molasses poured out of the USIA company's huge container, igniting the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
(a) 11,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 14,000.

3. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?
(a) Detroit.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Los Angeles.

4. By 1916, the membership of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage had grown to what size?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 350,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 750,000.

5. The largest-ever suffrage parade attracted about how many participants?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 2,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city did Al Capone move in the year 1920?

2. What percentage of the Washington DC population was white when World War I came to an end?

3. The National American Woman Suffrage Association convention attended by Alice Paul took place in what year?

4. How many children were standing near the container, scraping molasses off the tank, at the time of the disaster?

5. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?

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