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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Strikes and More Strikes - Chapter 6: A Noble Experiment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 64,000.
(c) 49,000.
(d) 99,000.

2. New technologies available in the 1920s allowed "a single still to create as many as" how many "gallons of whiskey a day" (162)?
(a) 40.
(b) 90.
(c) 130.
(d) 240.

3. How many incidents of violence were reported during the United States' very first general strike enacted across a whole city?
(a) 11.
(b) 0.
(c) 117.
(d) 23.

4. President Woodrow Wilson made it clear to the nation that he felt in what way about the striking members of the Boston police force?
(a) He was inspired by their perseverance.
(b) He was determined to shorten their work hours.
(c) He was outraged by their conduct.
(d) He was grateful for their courage.

5. How many thousands of shipyard workers walked off the job during "the first great strike of 1919" (119)?
(a) 12.
(b) 35.
(c) 112.
(d) 48.

Short Answer Questions

1. During World War I, molasses and what substance were mixed with ammonium nitrate in order to make explosives?

2. In what month of 1919 did 275,000 steelworkers across America go on stike, making it "the largest walkout that had ever taken place in the United States" (136)?

3. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?

4. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?

5. How many speakeasies were being operated within New York City by the mid-1920s?

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