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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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) 1911.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1913.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which of his siblings was Martin surprised to pull up out of the molasses during the flood?

3. How old was Alice Paul when she attended the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association?

4. How many people participated in the march for women's suffrage in Washington, D.C. in 1913?

5. What objects were kept burning day and night in the tactic the NWP named, "Watchfires of Freedom" (55)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the two most effective general strategies employed by the National Woman's Party in their pursuit of women getting the right to vote?

2. What were the circumstances surrounding the formation of the National Woman's Party?

3. In what way did Hugh Ogden have "a major and lasting impact on the public's relationship with big business" (31)?

4. What is the main claim Sandler makes within the introduction to 1919: The Year That Changed America?

5. What was "Watchfires of Freedom," (55) according to Sandler?

6. Discuss an instance when Sandler includes or highlights an element of absurdity in order to connect with a young audience in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event.

7. What "effective tactics" (34) used by suffragettes are portrayed in the photograph included just prior to the start of Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote?

8. For what reasons were the Western states more progressive in relation to women's voting rights than were the Eastern states?

9. What conclusion does Sandler draw about the suffragettes' awareness of their predecessors in the field of civil disobedience?

10. What were ultimately revealed to be the two main causes of the Great Molasses Flood?

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