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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. 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.

2. How many months passed between the end of the Chicago race riots and the start of "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (78) that took place in Arkansas?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

3. 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 determined to shorten their work hours.
(b) He was inspired by their perseverance.
(c) He was grateful for their courage.
(d) He was outraged by their conduct.

4. Which objects were used to mark the beginning of Prohibition in the city of Boston, as described in Chapter 6: A Noble Experiment?
(a) Church bells.
(b) Drums.
(c) Tubas.
(d) Champagne glasses.

5. A brick being thrown "through the large plate glass window of" what type of "store" was "like a signal for the mayhem to begin" (127) during the Boston police force strike?
(a) A furniture store.
(b) A clothing store.
(c) A shoe store.
(d) A cigar store.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did "the first great strike of 1919" (119) take place?

2. In what month of 1913 did Alice Paul's suffrage parade take place?

3. When 800 United States Army soldiers were deployed to Seattle in 1919, how many machine-gun companies were deployed there?

4. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what month of 1919?

5. The House Un-American Activities Committee searched for communists who had infiltrated which industry?

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