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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. In what month of 1919 did the Great Molasses Flood take place?
(a) November.
(b) January.
(c) June.
(d) April.

2. Which member of the Clougherty family reportedly rode his bed along the speeding river of molasses?
(a) Teresa.
(b) Bridget.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Martin.

3. Whose idea was it to hold a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. at the same time as the US Presidential inauguration?
(a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton's.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover's.
(c) Susan B. Anthony's.
(d) Alice Paul's.

4. How many feet wide was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 35.
(b) 50.
(c) 90.
(d) 20.

5. 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?
(a) Magnolia.
(b) Occidental.
(c) Commercial.
(d) Marigold.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Over" how many "individuals and companies filed lawsuits against USIA" (29) in the aftermath of 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. In what state was the Seneca Falls Convention held?

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

5. 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?

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