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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objects were kept burning day and night in the tactic the NWP named, "Watchfires of Freedom" (55)?
(a) Copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches.
(b) Socks.
(c) Copies of birth certificates.
(d) Garter belts.

2. World War I began in July of which year?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1921.

3. Before Ogden ruled that USIA would be held financially responsible for the harm it caused to victims of the flood, how many other corporations had been deemed liable for their actions in such a way?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

4. In what year was the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) created, with Susan B. "Anthony as its main driving force" (37)?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1902.

5. How many individuals did Ogden find criminally liable for the tragic events of the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 0.

Short Answer 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?

2. What color did USIA paint the container in an effort to camouflage its numerous leaks oozing molasses?

3. The largest-ever suffrage parade took place in what city in November of a particular year?

4. By 1910, the area of Boston affected by the Great Molasses Flood had a population of 28,000 Italians. How large was the total population of that area?

5. Whose idea was it to hold a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. at the same time as the US Presidential inauguration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence does Sandler provide for his claim that the Western states were more progressive than the Eastern states in terms of women's suffrage?

2. What were the two most effective general strategies employed by the National Woman's Party in their pursuit of women getting the right to vote?

3. Analyze a 1919 reporter's words about the Great Molasses Flood and discuss how they invoke the use of sensory details.

4. Analyze a 1919 reporter's use of literary devices to vividly depict the Great Molasses Flood.

5. What is Sandler's purpose for including a photograph of the "mass of debris" that is "all that was left of what had been the Clougherty house" (29)?

6. Discuss the greater signficance of the Great Molasses Flood, providing at least one cause and one effect within your answer.

7. What is the main claim Sandler makes within the introduction to 1919: The Year That Changed America?

8. In what way did Hugh Ogden have "a major and lasting impact on the public's relationship with big business" (31)?

9. For what reasons were the Western states more progressive in relation to women's voting rights than were the Eastern states?

10. Describe the "largest suffrage parade" (40) in American history.

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