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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. What job was Frank McManus performing when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?
(a) He was a streetsweeper.
(b) He was a firefighter.
(c) He was a paramedic.
(d) He was a policeman.

2. The construction of the container owned by USIA "was overseen by" (13) what type of person, rather than an engineer?
(a) A veterinarian.
(b) A stockbroker.
(c) An accountant.
(d) A doctor.

3. How many children were standing near the container, scraping molasses off the tank, at the time of the disaster?
(a) 3.
(b) 11.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. Around what time of day did the Great Molasses Flood commence?
(a) 6:30 in the morning.
(b) 3:30 in the afternoon.
(c) Noon.
(d) 12:30 in the afternoon.

5. How many Western states had already granted women the right to vote by the time a national women's suffrage law was passed?
(a) 9.
(b) 21.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the main organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention?

2. Which type of official first presented Congress "with a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote" (36) in 1878?

3. What did the Washington, D.C. police do when "many of the marchers were grabbed, shoved, and knocked down" (46) during Alice Paul's suffrage parade?

4. A reporter from which newspaper described the sounds associated with the disaster called the Great Molasses Flood?

5. Sandler states, "One of the NWP's main strategies was that of" (47) taking what action?

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