View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many people participated in the march for women's suffrage in Washington, D.C. in 1913?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 10,000.

3. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 69.
(b) 43.
(c) 294.
(d) 122.

4. What condition contributed to a severe labor shortage in the United States during World War I?
(a) The halting of all immigration from Asia.
(b) The halting of all immigration from Europe.
(c) The halting of all immigration from Australia.
(d) The halting of all immigration from South America.

5. 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?
(a) 9.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By 1910, the area of Boston affected by the Great Molasses Flood had a population of 28,000 Italians. How large was the total population of that area?

3. Analysts determined that the metal used to make the molasses container had what quality?

4. For what reason did men lining the suffrage parade route in Washington, D.C. begin "surging into the streets" (45)?

5. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 270 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample