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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The National American Woman Suffrage Association convention attended by Alice Paul took place in what year?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1915.

2. For what reason did men lining the suffrage parade route in Washington, D.C. begin "surging into the streets" (45)?
(a) To block the marchers.
(b) To provide the marchers with water and food.
(c) To rip off the marchers' clothing.
(d) To carry the marchers along.

3. In what city was the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association the year Alice Paul attended?
(a) New York City.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Macon.

4. Analysts determined that the metal used to make the molasses container had what quality?
(a) It was rusty.
(b) It was too flexible.
(c) It was too thin.
(d) It was too thick.

5. 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) 11,000.
(d) 3,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Woman's Era was the title of "the first periodical published in the United States" (38) by whom?

2. By 1910, the area of Boston affected by the Great Molasses Flood had a population of 28,000 Italians. How large was the total population of that area?

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

4. How many feet wide was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?

5. Modern studies have shown that the two causes of the Great Molasses Flood were shoddy construction and an explosion caused by what?

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