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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 millions of gallons of molasses were inside the tank when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?
(a) 2.3.
(b) 321.
(c) 47.
(d) 11.4.

2. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what city?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Houston.
(c) San Antonio.
(d) Macon.

3. How many months passed between the end of the Chicago race riots and the start of "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (78) that took place in Arkansas?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

4. The official program for Alice Paul's suffrage parade consisted of how many pages?
(a) 50.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 120.

5. The group referred to as the "suffrage pilgrims" (45) stopped by the home of new president Woodrow Wilson, who lived in what state?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the Washington DC population was white when World War I came to an end?

2. What job was Frank McManus performing when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?

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. In what year was the molasses container originally built?

5. In what year did Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the National Woman's Party (NWP), a group Sandler calls "the most effective of all the women's groups" (47)?

(see the answer key)

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