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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Red Summer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many black sharecroppers attended the meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union meeting on September 30, 1919?
(a) 30.
(b) 300.
(c) 500.
(d) 100.

2. 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) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

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

4. It is estimated that the waves of molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood moved at how many miles per hour?
(a) 35.
(b) 60.
(c) 12.
(d) 22.

5. For how many months had World War I been over when 1919 began?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many feet high was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?

2. On what date did President Woodrow Wilson take action in regard to the Washington, D.C. race riots described in Chapter 3: The Red Summer?

3. The period called the Red Summer actually began in which month of 1919?

4. Sandler states that those "who carried out lynchings made certain that, whenever possible, they were" what kind of "spectacle" (71)?

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

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