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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what city was the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association the year Alice Paul attended?
(a) Macon.
(b) New York City.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Philadelphia.

3. What kind of establishment did Martin Clougherty own in the North End of Boston?
(a) A bank.
(b) A blacksmith.
(c) A bar.
(d) A coffee shop.

4. Sandler states that in the early twentieth century, a woman was unable to legally object if her husband decided to take what action?
(a) Give up their children for adoption.
(b) Have her sterilized.
(c) Commit her to a mental institution.
(d) Take a mistress.

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

6. Which type of official first presented Congress "with a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote" (36) in 1878?
(a) A secretary of state.
(b) A senator.
(c) An attorney general.
(d) A vice-president.

7. When Frank McManus called for help after watching the tank's top blow off, he said, "There's a wave of molasses coming down" (16) which street?
(a) Occidental.
(b) Commercial.
(c) Marigold.
(d) Magnolia.

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

9. How many feet high were the largest waves of molasses created during the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 30.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

10. The largest-ever suffrage parade attracted about how many participants?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 2,000.

11. Which of his siblings was Martin surprised to pull up out of the molasses during the flood?
(a) Meredith.
(b) Bridget.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Teresa.

12. How old was Alice Paul when she attended the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
(a) 28.
(b) 22.
(c) 34.
(d) 17.

13. 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) 1913.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1911.

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

15. How many feet wide was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 35.
(b) 90.
(c) 50.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. The construction of the container owned by USIA "was overseen by" (13) what type of person, rather than an engineer?

2. In what year was the molasses container originally built?

3. Modern studies have shown that the two causes of the Great Molasses Flood were shoddy construction and an explosion caused by what?

4. Which amendment was concerned with women's right to vote?

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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