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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. What kind of establishment did Martin Clougherty own in the North End of Boston?
(a) A bar.
(b) A blacksmith.
(c) A bank.
(d) A coffee shop.

2. Around what time of day did the Great Molasses Flood commence?
(a) 12:30 in the afternoon.
(b) Noon.
(c) 6:30 in the morning.
(d) 3:30 in the afternoon.

3. How many feet high was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 10.
(d) 50.

4. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) James Weldon Johnson.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

5. How many women were part of the group who called themselves the "suffrage pilgrims" (41)?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 32.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job was Frank McManus performing when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?

2. 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?

3. How much time passed between the end of the Washington Riots of 1919 and the race riots that broke out in Chicago that same year?

4. What kind of metal was used to build the molasses container?

5. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?

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