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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. In what year was the molasses container originally built?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1917.

2. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 69.
(b) 294.
(c) 122.
(d) 43.

3. What condition contributed to a severe labor shortage in the United States during World War I?
(a) The halting of all immigration from Asia.
(b) The halting of all immigration from Europe.
(c) The halting of all immigration from Australia.
(d) The halting of all immigration from South America.

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

5. How many people participated in the march for women's suffrage in Washington, D.C. in 1913?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 20,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. World War I began in July of which year?

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

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

4. What objects were kept burning day and night in the tactic the NWP named, "Watchfires of Freedom" (55)?

5. Sandler states that in the early twentieth century, a woman was unable to legally object if her husband decided to take what action?

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