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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. In what year was the molasses container originally built?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1908.

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

3. Who was appointed to lead the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) Jack Klugman.
(b) Ole Hanson.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) J. Edgar Hoover.

4. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been injured?
(a) 40.
(b) 111.
(c) 12.
(d) 84.

5. How many women were part of the group who called themselves the "suffrage pilgrims" (41)?
(a) 16.
(b) 32.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

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. What system replaced slavery while at the same time doing little to improve the lives of those living within its structure?

3. In what city did "the first general strike in the nation's history" (121) occur?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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