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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. The NAACP sent letters of warning to how many different newspapers, telling them that they were "sowing the seeds of a race riot by their inflammatory headlines" (74)?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 16.
(d) 2.

2. In what city was the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association the year Alice Paul attended?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Charleston.
(c) New York City.
(d) Macon.

3. Woman's Era was the title of "the first periodical published in the United States" (38) by whom?
(a) Asian women.
(b) Women.
(c) White women.
(d) Black women.

4. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what month of 1919?
(a) July.
(b) May.
(c) June.
(d) August.

5. What gesture was involved in Royal Albert Leeman's successful efforts to save lives during the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) He used semaphore.
(b) He raised one arm in the air.
(c) He tipped his hat.
(d) He waved his arms.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children were standing near the container, scraping molasses off the tank, at the time of the disaster?

2. What is the title of the drawing created in 1915 that depicts "a torch-bearing woman" (38) striding across the United States?

3. In what year was the molasses container originally built?

4. In what year was the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage formed?

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

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