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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. What did the Washington, D.C. police do when "many of the marchers were grabbed, shoved, and knocked down" (46) during Alice Paul's suffrage parade?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They called off the march.
(c) They arrested the marchers.
(d) They arrested the culprits.

2. "Over" how many "individuals and companies filed lawsuits against USIA" (29) in the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 425.
(b) 125.
(c) 300.
(d) 25.

3. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?
(a) Sugarcane.
(b) Guavas.
(c) Coconuts.
(d) Pineapple.

4. In what location did one of "the largest and most devastating riots of all" NOT "take place" (72) during the period known as the Red Summer?
(a) Elaine, Arkansas.
(b) Macon, Georgia.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Washington, D.C.

5. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many people were deported using the ship nicknamed the "Soviet Ark" (104) in 1919?

3. In what city was the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association the year Alice Paul attended?

4. Sandler states that those "who carried out lynchings made certain that, whenever possible, they were" what kind of "spectacle" (71)?

5. It is estimated that the waves of molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood moved at how many miles per hour?

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