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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Modern studies have shown that the two causes of the Great Molasses Flood were shoddy construction and an explosion caused by what?
(a) A bomb.
(b) Fermentation.
(c) Arson.
(d) A lit cigarette.

2. The group referred to as the "suffrage pilgrims" (45) stopped by the home of new president Woodrow Wilson, who lived in what state?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Maryland.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) New York.

3. How many millions of gallons of molasses were inside the tank when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?
(a) 11.4.
(b) 2.3.
(c) 321.
(d) 47.

4. USIA bought up as much molasses as possible before Prohibition in order to make and sell what type of alcohol?
(a) Tequila.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Rum.

5. Which amendment was concerned with women's right to vote?
(a) The 4th.
(b) The 23rd.
(c) The 19th.
(d) The 12th.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what year did Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the National Woman's Party (NWP), a group Sandler calls "the most effective of all the women's groups" (47)?

3. 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?

4. Henry A. Stinson, the secretary of war in 1913, promised that if the suffragists encountered trouble during Alice Paul's parade, he would send the cavalry from which nearby fort?

5. How many feet high was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?

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