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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. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A town hall.
(c) A church.
(d) A private home.

2. Toward what location did the "ancient army transport ship" (105) called the Buford take its passengers?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) Norway.
(d) Greece.

3. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?
(a) Coconuts.
(b) Guavas.
(c) Pineapple.
(d) Sugarcane.

4. 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 clothing store.
(b) A cigar store.
(c) A furniture store.
(d) A shoe store.

5. In what month did Senator Joseph McCarthy host his first event aimed at exploiting the rising fear of Communism in America?
(a) February.
(b) April.
(c) January.
(d) June.

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. "Over" how many "individuals and companies filed lawsuits against USIA" (29) in the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood?

3. In what year did Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the National Woman's Party (NWP), a group Sandler calls "the most effective of all the women's groups" (47)?

4. In how many American cities, in total, were Communist raids carried out on November 9, 1919?

5. Sandler points out that the battle for women to attain the right to vote was waged for over how many years before it was resolved?

(see the answer key)

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