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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) 1908.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1919.

2. Sandler states, "By 1829, there were" how many "temperance societies throughout America" (152)?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 100.
(c) 500.
(d) 5,000.

3. Which entity "released its official explanation" (105) of the reason why people had been deported on the ship called the Buford?
(a) The US State Department.
(b) The CIA.
(c) The FBI.
(d) The ACLU.

4. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Detroit.

5. 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?
(a) They arrested the marchers.
(b) They arrested the culprits.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They called off the march.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason did men lining the suffrage parade route in Washington, D.C. begin "surging into the streets" (45)?

2. When the striking members of the Boston police force returned to work, what happened next?

3. What action did Calvin Coolidge, the Massachusetts governor, take when it appeared that at Boston Police Department strike was imminent?

4. How many feet high were the largest waves of molasses created during the Great Molasses Flood?

5. What job was Royal Albert Leeman performing when he helped avoid a greater death toll than the Great Molasses Flood had already caused?

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