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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A reporter from which newspaper described the sounds associated with the disaster called the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) The Boston Herald.
(b) The Boston Post.
(c) The Boston Review.
(d) The Boston Gazette.

2. Modern studies have shown that the two causes of the Great Molasses Flood were shoddy construction and an explosion caused by what?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A lit cigarette.
(c) Arson.
(d) Fermentation.

3. The construction of the container owned by USIA "was overseen by" (13) what type of person, rather than an engineer?
(a) A veterinarian.
(b) A stockbroker.
(c) A doctor.
(d) An accountant.

4. What was the first name of Ogden, the man who was put in charge of determining criminal and civil liability for USIA after the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) Walt.
(b) Herman.
(c) Hugh.
(d) Ralph.

5. What did the Washington, D.C. police do when "many of the marchers were grabbed, shoved, and knocked down" (46) during Alice Paul's suffrage parade?
(a) They arrested the culprits.
(b) They called off the march.
(c) They arrested the marchers.
(d) Nothing.

6. Sandler states, "One of the NWP's main strategies was that of" (47) taking what action?
(a) Lobbying.
(b) Sending telegrams.
(c) Fundraising.
(d) Selling pamphlets.

7. What objects were kept burning day and night in the tactic the NWP named, "Watchfires of Freedom" (55)?
(a) Copies of birth certificates.
(b) Socks.
(c) Garter belts.
(d) Copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches.

8. What is the title of the drawing created in 1915 that depicts "a torch-bearing woman" (38) striding across the United States?
(a) The Freedom.
(b) The Truth.
(c) The Awakening.
(d) The Cause.

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

10. Women participating in Alice Paul's suffrage parade and march in 1913 were instructed to wear what color dresses?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Purple.

11. How many of the children standing near the container at the time of the disaster survived the event?
(a) 7.
(b) 0.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

12. Whose idea was it to hold a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. at the same time as the US Presidential inauguration?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover's.
(b) Susan B. Anthony's.
(c) Elizabeth Cady Stanton's.
(d) Alice Paul's.

13. Which amendment was concerned with women's right to vote?
(a) The 4th.
(b) The 23rd.
(c) The 12th.
(d) The 19th.

14. 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)?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1911.

15. By 1916, the membership of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage had grown to what size?
(a) 350,000.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 1 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. USIA bought up as much molasses as possible before Prohibition in order to make and sell what type of alcohol?

2. The group referred to as the "suffrage pilgrims" (45) stopped by the home of new president Woodrow Wilson, who lived in what state?

3. In what year was the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) created, with Susan B. "Anthony as its main driving force" (37)?

4. In what year was the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage formed?

5. How many tons of molasses poured out of the USIA company's huge container, igniting the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

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