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

2. How many white people were arrested during the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 22.
(b) 83.
(c) 11.
(d) 0.

3. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?
(a) The South.
(b) The East.
(c) The West.
(d) The Southeast.

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

5. Around what time of day did the Great Molasses Flood commence?
(a) 12:30 in the afternoon.
(b) 6:30 in the morning.
(c) 3:30 in the afternoon.
(d) Noon.

Short Answer Questions

1. The largest-ever suffrage parade attracted about how many participants?

2. In what year was the 15th Amendment ratified, granting black men the right to vote?

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

4. 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?

5. On what date did President Woodrow Wilson take action in regard to the Washington, D.C. race riots described in Chapter 3: The Red Summer?

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