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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 tons of molasses poured out of the USIA company's huge container, igniting the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 11,000.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 14,000.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The women in the group called the "suffrage pilgrims" (41) began their long journey in what American city?

2. What job was Royal Albert Leeman performing when he helped avoid a greater death toll than the Great Molasses Flood had already caused?

3. During World War I, molasses and what substance were mixed with ammonium nitrate in order to make explosives?

4. How many Western states had already granted women the right to vote by the time a national women's suffrage law was passed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What clues point to the conclusion that USIA likely knew that the molasses container needed attention before the Great Molasses Flood occurred?

4. How many "tons of raw molasses poured out" (15) of the container, how high were the waves it produced, and how fast did the molasses move during the Great Molasses Flood?

5. In what way does the photograph of the men standing at the booth marked "National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage" (42) evoke the motif of the Other?

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

7. Analyze a 1919 reporter's use of literary devices to vividly depict the Great Molasses Flood.

8. Discuss an instance when Sandler highlights the irony of a situation within Chapter 1: An Amazing Event.

9. What evidence does Sandler provide for his claim that the Western states were more progressive than the Eastern states in terms of women's suffrage?

10. Discuss the significance of the drawing entitled "The Awakening" included on page 37 of Chapter 2: Women Get the Vote.

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