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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. What job was Royal Albert Leeman performing when he helped avoid a greater death toll than the Great Molasses Flood had already caused?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Surgeon.
(c) Auto mechanic.
(d) Brakeman.

2. Around what time of day did the Great Molasses Flood commence?
(a) 12:30 in the afternoon.
(b) Noon.
(c) 3:30 in the afternoon.
(d) 6:30 in the morning.

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

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

5. How many floats participated within Alice Paul's suffrage parade and march in 1913?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 100.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. The largest-ever suffrage parade took place in what city in November of a particular year?

2. What gesture was involved in Royal Albert Leeman's successful efforts to save lives during the Great Molasses Flood?

3. World War I began in July of which year?

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

5. In what year was the Seneca Falls Convention held?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Sandler's purpose for including a photograph of the "mass of debris" that is "all that was left of what had been the Clougherty house" (29)?

3. Who were the "suffrage pilgrims" (42) and how effective were their strategies?

4. Discuss the greater signficance of the Great Molasses Flood, providing at least one cause and one effect within your answer.

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. What role did elevated railroad brakeman Royal Albert Leeman play in the Great Molasses Flood?

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

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