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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Strikes and More Strikes - Chapter 6: A Noble Experiment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 122.
(b) 69.
(c) 294.
(d) 43.

2. How many floats participated within Alice Paul's suffrage parade and march in 1913?
(a) 30.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 20.

3. Which black author wrote about the symbolism of the Northern United States in the early twentieth century?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Richard Wright.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) James Baldwin.

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

5. How many feet high were the largest waves of molasses created during the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which newspaper proclaimed in relation to the Red Scare that "Free speech has been carried to the point where it is an unrestrained menace" (101)?

2. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer had the ultimate goal of taking which office in the United States government?

3. In what month of 1919 did 275,000 steelworkers across America go on stike, making it "the largest walkout that had ever taken place in the United States" (136)?

4. What action did Calvin Coolidge, the Massachusetts governor, take when it appeared that at Boston Police Department strike was imminent?

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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