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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. A reporter from which newspaper described the sounds associated with the disaster called the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) The Boston Post.
(b) The Boston Herald.
(c) The Boston Review.
(d) The Boston Gazette.

2. 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.

3. 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)?
(a) 2.
(b) 16.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

4. How many feet high were the largest waves of molasses created during the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

5. The largest-ever suffrage parade attracted about how many participants?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 2,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was a policeman stabbed and killed during a 1919 May Day labor movement event?

2. Which newspaper proclaimed in relation to the Red Scare that "Free speech has been carried to the point where it is an unrestrained menace" (101)?

3. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia by the end of 1919?

4. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been injured?

5. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?

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