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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Chapter 1: An Amazing Event.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many tons of molasses poured out of the USIA company's huge container, igniting the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
(a) 14,000.
(b) 7,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 11,000.

2. How many millions of gallons of molasses were inside the tank when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?
(a) 2.3.
(b) 321.
(c) 11.4.
(d) 47.

3. How many feet wide was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 35.
(b) 90.
(c) 50.
(d) 20.

4. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?
(a) Pineapple.
(b) Sugarcane.
(c) Coconuts.
(d) Guavas.

5. Before Ogden ruled that USIA would be held financially responsible for the harm it caused to victims of the flood, how many other corporations had been deemed liable for their actions in such a way?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many months had World War I been over when 1919 began?

2. The construction of the container owned by USIA "was overseen by" (13) what type of person, rather than an engineer?

3. "Over" how many "individuals and companies filed lawsuits against USIA" (29) in the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood?

4. What kind of establishment did Martin Clougherty own in the North End of Boston?

5. During World War I, molasses and what substance were mixed with ammonium nitrate in order to make explosives?

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