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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Red Scare.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In front of what location are the suffragists picketing, in the photograph included just prior to the opening of Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote?
(a) The Executive Mansion.
(b) The Washington Memorial.
(c) The Empire State Building.
(d) The Pentagon.

2. Which amendment was concerned with women's right to vote?
(a) The 4th.
(b) The 23rd.
(c) The 19th.
(d) The 12th.

3. In what year did Senator Joseph McCarthy's first event aimed at inciting a second Red Scare take place?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1940.

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?
(a) Walt.
(b) Herman.
(c) Hugh.
(d) Ralph.

5. On what date did President Woodrow Wilson take action in regard to the Washington, D.C. race riots described in Chapter 3: The Red Summer?
(a) September 30.
(b) July 29.
(c) August 1.
(d) July 22.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what month of 1919 did the Great Molasses Flood take place?

3. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?

4. In what month of 1919 was A. Mitchell Palmer appointed to the position of US attorney general?

5. When Frank McManus called for help after watching the tank's top blow off, he said, "There's a wave of molasses coming down" (16) which street?

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