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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. When Governor Calvin Coolidge finally requested that entire state guard be brought in to quell the violence in Boston, how many thousand men arrived?
(a) 7.
(b) 28.
(c) 3.
(d) 30.

2. Who was the most famous male anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?
(a) Michael Andretti.
(b) Alexander Berkman.
(c) A. Mitchell Palmer.
(d) Jeffrey Newman.

3. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what city?
(a) Houston.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Macon.
(d) Charleston.

4. Sandler writes, "Communism is based on a system in which" what entity "owns everything and is responsible for distributing resources to every citizen" (96)?
(a) The government.
(b) The individual.
(c) The church.
(d) The king.

5. In what month of 1919 did the Great Molasses Flood take place?
(a) April.
(b) November.
(c) June.
(d) January.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many feet wide was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?

3. The photograph featured just prior to the opening of Chapter 5: Strikes and More Strikes depicts a scene from which city?

4. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?

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

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