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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. In what state was the Seneca Falls Convention held?
(a) California.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New York.

2. Who was appointed to lead the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) Ole Hanson.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) J. Edgar Hoover.
(d) Jack Klugman.

3. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) August.
(b) December.
(c) March.
(d) May.

4. In what month was the Seneca Falls Convention held?
(a) October.
(b) July.
(c) August.
(d) November.

5. 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?
(a) July 22.
(b) September 30.
(c) August 1.
(d) July 29.

Short Answer Questions

1. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been arrested?

2. For how many months had World War I been over when 1919 began?

3. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?

4. What gesture was involved in Royal Albert Leeman's successful efforts to save lives during the Great Molasses Flood?

5. At the height of Senator Joseph McCarthy's popularity, what percentage of the US population "believed he was doing an outstanding job of rooting out secret Communists" (107)?

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