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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. Around 150 young men attending which university were brought in to help quell the lawlessness blooming in the absence of Boston's police force?
(a) Yale.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Brown.
(d) Harvard.

2. The photograph included as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare is set in which state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) California.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Alabama.

3. What kind of establishment did Martin Clougherty own in the North End of Boston?
(a) A bank.
(b) A bar.
(c) A blacksmith.
(d) A coffee shop.

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

5. How many thousands of shipyard workers walked off the job during "the first great strike of 1919" (119)?
(a) 35.
(b) 48.
(c) 112.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

2. What percentage of the Washington DC population was white when World War I came to an end?

3. In what city did "the first great strike of 1919" (119) take place?

4. 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?

5. In what area of Boston did the Great Molasses Flood occur?

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