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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 white people were arrested during the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 11.
(b) 83.
(c) 0.
(d) 22.

2. In what location did one of "the largest and most devastating riots of all" NOT "take place" (72) during the period known as the Red Summer?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Elaine, Arkansas.
(d) Washington, D.C.

3. In what city was a policeman stabbed and killed during a 1919 May Day labor movement event?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Boston.
(c) Detroit.
(d) San Francisco.

4. How many speakeasies were being operated within New York City by the mid-1920s?
(a) 32,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 120.
(d) 600.

5. Who was the most famous male anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?
(a) Michael Andretti.
(b) Jeffrey Newman.
(c) A. Mitchell Palmer.
(d) Alexander Berkman.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. The Volstead Act began to be enforced throughout the United States in what year?

3. In what year did President Barack Obama sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?

4. How many millions of gallons of molasses were inside the tank when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?

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

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