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

2. In what year was the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage formed?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1915.

3. In what month of 1913 did Alice Paul's suffrage parade take place?
(a) March.
(b) December.
(c) June.
(d) January.

4. To what city did Al Capone move in the year 1920?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York City.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Los Angeles.

5. In what year was the Seneca Falls Convention held?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1863.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In front of what location are the suffragists picketing, in the photograph included just prior to the opening of Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote?

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

4. Whose idea was it to hold a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. at the same time as the US Presidential inauguration?

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

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