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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. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?
(a) A church.
(b) A town hall.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A private home.

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)?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1916.

3. The women in the group called the "suffrage pilgrims" (41) began their long journey in what American city?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Boston.
(c) Oakland.
(d) New York City.

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

5. Sandler points out that the battle for women to attain the right to vote was waged for over how many years before it was resolved?
(a) 10.
(b) 50.
(c) 30.
(d) 70.

Short Answer Questions

1. Modern studies have shown that the two causes of the Great Molasses Flood were shoddy construction and an explosion caused by what?

2. Which black author wrote about the symbolism of the Northern United States in the early twentieth century?

3. In what month of 1919 did 275,000 steelworkers across America go on stike, making it "the largest walkout that had ever taken place in the United States" (136)?

4. The women in the group called the "suffrage pilgrims" (41) ended their trek in what American city?

5. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?

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