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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. According to the prestigious organization called Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) how many black people were killed during the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 237.
(b) 111.
(c) 58.
(d) 34.

2. How many children were standing near the container, scraping molasses off the tank, at the time of the disaster?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 11.

3. Which black author and activist coined the term "the Red Summer" (66)?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Zora Neale Hurston.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

4. Around 150 young men attending which university were brought in to help quell the lawlessness blooming in the absence of Boston's police force?
(a) Brown.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cornell.

5. In what state was the Seneca Falls Convention held?
(a) New York.
(b) Virginia.
(c) California.
(d) Maryland.

Short Answer Questions

1. New technologies available in the 1920s allowed "a single still to create as many as" how many "gallons of whiskey a day" (162)?

2. One of the main issues that fueled members of the Boston Police Department to strike in 1919 was their required shift of how many hours?

3. Sandler states, "The first great strike of 1919 began" (119) in which month?

4. The politician who held up a blank sheet of paper during a speech claimed that it contained the names of how many Communist members of the US State Department?

5. Which amendment was concerned with women's right to vote?

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