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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. What objects were kept burning day and night in the tactic the NWP named, "Watchfires of Freedom" (55)?
(a) Copies of birth certificates.
(b) Copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches.
(c) Socks.
(d) Garter belts.

2. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?
(a) Sugarcane.
(b) Pineapple.
(c) Coconuts.
(d) Guavas.

3. In what month of 1919 did the Great Molasses Flood take place?
(a) November.
(b) January.
(c) June.
(d) April.

4. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?
(a) 500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 100.
(d) 300.

5. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?
(a) The Chicago Defender.
(b) The Chicago Rally.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Chicago Freedom Fighter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color did USIA paint the container in an effort to camouflage its numerous leaks oozing molasses?

2. The National American Woman Suffrage Association convention attended by Alice Paul took place in what year?

3. The official program for Alice Paul's suffrage parade consisted of how many pages?

4. How many of the children standing near the container at the time of the disaster survived the event?

5. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?

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