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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. In what year was the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) created, with Susan B. "Anthony as its main driving force" (37)?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1902.

2. In which two states did the state police attack steelworker strikers with clubs, drag them from their houses, and throw "thousands in jail on false charges" (139)?
(a) Maryland and Pennsylvania.
(b) Pennsylvania and Delaware.
(c) Maine and Delaware.
(d) New Jersey and Delaware.

3. It is estimated that the waves of molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood moved at how many miles per hour?
(a) 35.
(b) 60.
(c) 22.
(d) 12.

4. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?
(a) 500.
(b) 300.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 100.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose idea was it to hold a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. at the same time as the US Presidential inauguration?

2. Around what time of day did the Great Molasses Flood commence?

3. In what location did one of "the largest and most devastating riots of all" NOT "take place" (72) during the period known as the Red Summer?

4. Which objects were used to mark the beginning of Prohibition in the city of Boston, as described in Chapter 6: A Noble Experiment?

5. The House Un-American Activities Committee was formed by which body?

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