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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. 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 Empire State Building.
(b) The Executive Mansion.
(c) The Washington Memorial.
(d) The Pentagon.

2. What precaution was taken to protect banks and department stores from the wrath of looters during the Boston police force strike in 1919?
(a) They were guarded all night by conscientious citizens.
(b) They were booby-trapped with bombs.
(c) They were surrounded by members of the National Guard.
(d) They were surrounded with barbed wire.

3. Which of his siblings was Martin surprised to pull up out of the molasses during the flood?
(a) Teresa.
(b) Stephen.
(c) Bridget.
(d) Meredith.

4. Sandler states, "By 1829, there were" how many "temperance societies throughout America" (152)?
(a) 100.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 500.

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) July 29.
(b) August 1.
(c) September 30.
(d) July 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did President Barack Obama sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?

2. In what year did the Anti-Saloon League emerge "under the wide and sometimes ruthless leadership of Wayne Wheeler" (158)?

3. 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?

4. How many feet high were the largest waves of molasses created during the Great Molasses Flood?

5. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been arrested?

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