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

2. In what city did "the first great strike of 1919" (119) take place?
(a) Miami.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Portland.
(d) Newark.

3. The National American Woman Suffrage Association convention attended by Alice Paul took place in what year?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1919.

4. How many people were deported using the ship nicknamed the "Soviet Ark" (104) in 1919?
(a) 249.
(b) 46.
(c) 500.
(d) 128.

5. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?
(a) 800.
(b) 250.
(c) 1,100.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) created, with Susan B. "Anthony as its main driving force" (37)?

2. What condition contributed to a severe labor shortage in the United States during World War I?

3. How many white people were arrested during the Elaine Massacre?

4. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?

5. The NAACP sent letters of warning to how many different newspapers, telling them that they were "sowing the seeds of a race riot by their inflammatory headlines" (74)?

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