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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. Which entity did NOT declare the first general strike to be a secret "Communist plot to change the very fabric of America" (121)?
(a) The Baltimore Sun.
(b) The Los Angeles Times.
(c) Mayor Ole Hanson.
(d) The NAACP.

2. How many thousands of black people took part in the Great Migration, according to Sandler?
(a) 40.
(b) 500.
(c) 360.
(d) 120.

3. The politician who held up a blank sheet of paper during a speech claimed that it contained the names of how many Communist members of the US State Department?
(a) 35.
(b) 75.
(c) 205.
(d) 105.

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

5. 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?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 6 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did "the first great strike of 1919" (119) take place?

2. What gesture was involved in Royal Albert Leeman's successful efforts to save lives during the Great Molasses Flood?

3. How many millions of gallons of molasses were inside the tank when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?

4. How many children were standing near the container, scraping molasses off the tank, at the time of the disaster?

5. Women participating in Alice Paul's suffrage parade and march in 1913 were instructed to wear what color dresses?

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