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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many months had World War I been over when 1919 began?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

2. In what year was the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage formed?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

3. How many feet high was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 10.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

4. 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.

5. What job was Frank McManus performing when the Great Molasses Flood occurred?
(a) He was a paramedic.
(b) He was a policeman.
(c) He was a firefighter.
(d) He was a streetsweeper.

6. In what year was the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) created, with Susan B. "Anthony as its main driving force" (37)?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1881.

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) Garter belts.
(c) Socks.
(d) Copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches.

8. It is estimated that the waves of molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood moved at how many miles per hour?
(a) 35.
(b) 60.
(c) 12.
(d) 22.

9. Which member of the Clougherty family reportedly rode his bed along the speeding river of molasses?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Bridget.
(c) Martin.
(d) Teresa.

10. The women in the group called the "suffrage pilgrims" (41) began their long journey in what American city?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York City.

11. How many Western states had already granted women the right to vote by the time a national women's suffrage law was passed?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 14.
(d) 21.

12. In what month of 1913 did Alice Paul's suffrage parade take place?
(a) December.
(b) January.
(c) March.
(d) June.

13. For what reason did men lining the suffrage parade route in Washington, D.C. begin "surging into the streets" (45)?
(a) To rip off the marchers' clothing.
(b) To carry the marchers along.
(c) To provide the marchers with water and food.
(d) To block the marchers.

14. Analysts determined that the metal used to make the molasses container had what quality?
(a) It was too thin.
(b) It was rusty.
(c) It was too thick.
(d) It was too flexible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children were standing near the container, scraping molasses off the tank, at the time of the disaster?

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

3. 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?

4. What is the title of the drawing created in 1915 that depicts "a torch-bearing woman" (38) striding across the United States?

5. In what area of Boston did the Great Molasses Flood occur?

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