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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Strikes and More Strikes - Chapter 6: A Noble Experiment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 11.
(c) 14.
(d) 21.

2. How many floats participated within Alice Paul's suffrage parade and march in 1913?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

3. The "white press" in which area of the country in particular is described as having "made the situation much worse" (73) during the Red Summer?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Maryland.
(c) New York City.
(d) Washington, D.C.

4. Which type of official first presented Congress "with a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote" (36) in 1878?
(a) A vice-president.
(b) A senator.
(c) A secretary of state.
(d) An attorney general.

5. Sandler writes, "Communism is based on a system in which" what entity "owns everything and is responsible for distributing resources to every citizen" (96)?
(a) The individual.
(b) The church.
(c) The government.
(d) The king.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Ogden ruled that USIA would be held financially responsible for the harm it caused to victims of the flood, how many other corporations had been deemed liable for their actions in such a way?

2. The House Un-American Activities Committee searched for communists who had infiltrated which industry?

3. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?

4. In what location did one of "the largest and most devastating riots of all" NOT "take place" (72) during the period known as the Red Summer?

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

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