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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. "Over" how many "individuals and companies filed lawsuits against USIA" (29) in the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 300.
(b) 125.
(c) 25.
(d) 425.

2. What is the title of the drawing created in 1915 that depicts "a torch-bearing woman" (38) striding across the United States?
(a) The Awakening.
(b) The Truth.
(c) The Cause.
(d) The Freedom.

3. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1923.

4. Which of his siblings was Martin surprised to pull up out of the molasses during the flood?
(a) Bridget.
(b) Teresa.
(c) Meredith.
(d) Stephen.

5. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 43.
(b) 69.
(c) 294.
(d) 122.

Short Answer Questions

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

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)?

3. 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?

4. Which black author and activist coined the term "the Red Summer" (66)?

5. Analysts determined that the metal used to make the molasses container had what quality?

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