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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Red Summer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. World War I began in July of which year?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1909.

2. How many thousands of black people took part in the Great Migration, according to Sandler?
(a) 40.
(b) 360.
(c) 120.
(d) 500.

3. What job was Frank McManus performing when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?
(a) He was a firefighter.
(b) He was a paramedic.
(c) He was a policeman.
(d) He was a streetsweeper.

4. How many black sharecroppers attended the meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union meeting on September 30, 1919?
(a) 300.
(b) 100.
(c) 500.
(d) 30.

5. In what month of 1913 did Alice Paul's suffrage parade take place?
(a) January.
(b) December.
(c) March.
(d) June.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the molasses container originally built?

3. In what year did Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the National Woman's Party (NWP), a group Sandler calls "the most effective of all the women's groups" (47)?

4. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?

5. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?

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