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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. On what date in 1919 did a major race riot begin in Washington, D.C.?
(a) July 19.
(b) July 6.
(c) July 4.
(d) June 30.

2. When Frank McManus called for help after watching the tank's top blow off, he said, "There's a wave of molasses coming down" (16) which street?
(a) Marigold.
(b) Commercial.
(c) Occidental.
(d) Magnolia.

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

4. What did the Washington, D.C. police do when "many of the marchers were grabbed, shoved, and knocked down" (46) during Alice Paul's suffrage parade?
(a) They called off the march.
(b) They arrested the marchers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They arrested the culprits.

5. In what location did one of "the largest and most devastating riots of all" NOT "take place" (72) during the period known as the Red Summer?
(a) Elaine, Arkansas.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Macon, Georgia.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city did Al Capone move in the year 1920?

2. What kind of metal was used to build the molasses container?

3. What job did the man have who ended up being tossed into the harbor after narrowly escaping other perils in the Great Molasses Flood?

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

5. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?

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