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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. Modern studies have shown that the two causes of the Great Molasses Flood were shoddy construction and an explosion caused by what?
(a) A lit cigarette.
(b) Arson.
(c) A bomb.
(d) Fermentation.

2. Sandler points out that the battle for women to attain the right to vote was waged for over how many years before it was resolved?
(a) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 70.
(d) 10.

3. In what year was the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage formed?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1911.

4. The largest-ever suffrage parade took place in what city in November of a particular year?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York City.
(d) Oakland.

5. What objects were kept burning day and night in the tactic the NWP named, "Watchfires of Freedom" (55)?
(a) Socks.
(b) Copies of birth certificates.
(c) Copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches.
(d) Garter belts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sandler states, "One of the NWP's main strategies was that of" (47) taking what action?

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

3. How many floats participated within Alice Paul's suffrage parade and march in 1913?

4. How many children were standing near the container, scraping molasses off the tank, at the time of the disaster?

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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