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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. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?
(a) Coconuts.
(b) Sugarcane.
(c) Guavas.
(d) Pineapple.

2. What was the first name of Ogden, the man who was put in charge of determining criminal and civil liability for USIA after the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Hugh.
(c) Walt.
(d) Herman.

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

4. 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) 11,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 14,000.

5. The largest-ever suffrage parade took place in what city in November of a particular year?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Boston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. The women in the group called the "suffrage pilgrims" (41) ended their trek in what American city?

2. What color did USIA paint the container in an effort to camouflage its numerous leaks oozing molasses?

3. In what year was the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage formed?

4. Henry A. Stinson, the secretary of war in 1913, promised that if the suffragists encountered trouble during Alice Paul's parade, he would send the cavalry from which nearby fort?

5. What job did the man have who ended up being tossed into the harbor after narrowly escaping other perils in the Great Molasses Flood?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the "largest suffrage parade" (40) in American history.

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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