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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. In what month of 1919 did the Great Molasses Flood take place?
(a) April.
(b) June.
(c) January.
(d) November.

2. The women in the group called the "suffrage pilgrims" (41) began their long journey in what American city?
(a) New York City.
(b) Boston.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Oakland.

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

4. In front of what location are the suffragists picketing, in the photograph included just prior to the opening of Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote?
(a) The Pentagon.
(b) The Washington Memorial.
(c) The Executive Mansion.
(d) The Empire State Building.

5. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?
(a) The locust.
(b) The boll weevil.
(c) The aphed.
(d) The corpse moth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many millions of gallons of molasses were inside the tank when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?

2. How many tons of molasses poured out of the USIA company's huge container, igniting the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

3. The group referred to as the "suffrage pilgrims" (45) stopped by the home of new president Woodrow Wilson, who lived in what state?

4. In what city was the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association the year Alice Paul attended?

5. In what month was the Seneca Falls Convention held?

(see the answer key)

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