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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. The largest-ever suffrage parade attracted about how many participants?

2. Which member of the Clougherty family reportedly rode his bed along the speeding river of molasses?

3. How many tons of molasses poured out of the USIA company's huge container, igniting the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

4. Modern studies have shown that the two causes of the Great Molasses Flood were shoddy construction and an explosion caused by what?

5. What job was Royal Albert Leeman performing when he helped avoid a greater death toll than the Great Molasses Flood had already caused?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the circumstances surrounding the formation of the National Woman's Party?

2. Discuss the significance of the drawing entitled "The Awakening" included on page 37 of Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote.

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

4. Who were the "suffrage pilgrims" (42) and how effective were their strategies?

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. What conclusion does Sandler draw about the suffragettes' awareness of their predecessors in the field of civil disobedience?

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

8. Describe the very first "suffrage parade" (40) in American history.

9. Discuss an instance when Sandler includes or highlights an element of absurdity in order to connect with a young audience in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event.

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the purpose for Sandler’s inclusion of photographs within 1919: The Year That Changed America?

Essay Topic 2

What is Sandler's message regarding the difference between awareness and activism and how does Sandler get this message across to the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Sandler’s reasons for shaping the introduction of the text of 1919: The Year That Changed America in the way that he does.

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