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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 old was Alice Paul when she attended the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
(a) 22.
(b) 28.
(c) 34.
(d) 17.

2. What percentage of the Washington DC population was white when World War I came to an end?
(a) 85.
(b) 60.
(c) 75.
(d) 90.

3. The largest-ever suffrage parade attracted about how many participants?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 2,000.

4. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia by the end of 1919?
(a) 300.
(b) 0.
(c) 30.
(d) 1500.

5. By 1916, the membership of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage had grown to what size?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 350,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 750,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During World War I, molasses and what substance were mixed with ammonium nitrate in order to make explosives?

3. A reporter from which newspaper described the sounds associated with the disaster called the Great Molasses Flood?

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

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

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