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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. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing how many hundreds of thousands of "cross-indexed cards" (100)?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

2. The Volstead Act began to be enforced throughout the United States in what year?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1918.

3. USIA bought up as much molasses as possible before Prohibition in order to make and sell what type of alcohol?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Rum.
(c) Tequila.
(d) Vodka.

4. 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 surrounded by members of the National Guard.
(b) They were booby-trapped with bombs.
(c) They were guarded all night by conscientious citizens.
(d) They were surrounded with barbed wire.

5. What system replaced slavery while at the same time doing little to improve the lives of those living within its structure?
(a) Indentured servitude.
(b) Communism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Sharecropping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job was Frank McManus performing when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?

2. The NAACP sent letters of warning to how many different newspapers, telling them that they were "sowing the seeds of a race riot by their inflammatory headlines" (74)?

3. What was the intended function of the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

4. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?

5. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what city?

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