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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. The "white press" in which area of the country in particular is described as having "made the situation much worse" (73) during the Red Summer?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) New York City.

2. On January 2, 1920, Palmer authorized raids all of the country, resulting in how many thousands of arrests?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 24.

3. In what year did President Barack Obama sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2008.

4. 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?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 70.
(d) 30.

5. "Over" how many "individuals and companies filed lawsuits against USIA" (29) in the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 425.
(b) 300.
(c) 125.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

2. What gesture was involved in Royal Albert Leeman's successful efforts to save lives during the Great Molasses Flood?

3. In what month did Senator Joseph McCarthy host his first event aimed at exploiting the rising fear of Communism in America?

4. By 1910, the area of Boston affected by the Great Molasses Flood had a population of 28,000 Italians. How large was the total population of that area?

5. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?

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