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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. A reporter from which newspaper described the sounds associated with the disaster called the Great Molasses Flood?
2. What is the title of the drawing created in 1915 that depicts "a torch-bearing woman" (38) striding across the United States?
3. Which of his siblings was Martin surprised to pull up out of the molasses during the flood?
4. What color did USIA paint the container in an effort to camouflage its numerous leaks oozing molasses?
5. By 1916, the membership of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage had grown to what size?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the very first "suffrage parade" (40) in American history.
2. 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)?
3. What is the main claim Sandler makes within the introduction to 1919: The Year That Changed America?
4. Discuss the greater signficance of the Great Molasses Flood, providing at least one cause and one effect within your answer.
5. What conclusion does Sandler draw about the suffragettes' awareness of their predecessors in the field of civil disobedience?
6. Discuss the significance of the drawing entitled "The Awakening" included on page 37 of Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote.
7. In what way does the photograph of the men standing at the booth marked "National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage" (42) evoke the motif of the Other?
8. 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?
9. How many "tons of raw molasses poured out" (15) of the container, how high were the waves it produced, and how fast did the molasses move during the Great Molasses Flood?
10. For what reasons were the Western states more progressive in relation to women's voting rights than were the Eastern states?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Sandler’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of 1919: The Year That Changed America.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Sandler’s use of the motif of sound within the nonfiction work 1919: The Year That Changed America.
Essay Topic 3
Examine how Sandler goes about connecting personal experience with the arguments put forth within 1919: The Year That Changed America. How does Sandler accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?
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