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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Red Scare.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Frank McManus called for help after watching the tank's top blow off, he said, "There's a wave of molasses coming down" (16) which street?
(a) Occidental.
(b) Commercial.
(c) Marigold.
(d) Magnolia.

4. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?
(a) Sugarcane.
(b) Guavas.
(c) Coconuts.
(d) Pineapple.

5. For how many months had World War I been over when 1919 began?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the children standing near the container at the time of the disaster survived the event?

2. Henry A. Stinson, the secretary of war in 1913, promised that if the suffragists encountered trouble during Alice Paul's parade, he would send the cavalry from which nearby fort?

3. In what year was the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage formed?

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

5. The NAACP sent letters of warning to how many different newspapers, telling them that they were "sowing the seeds of a race riot by their inflammatory headlines" (74)?

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