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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Senator Joseph McCarthy's first event aimed at inciting a second Red Scare take place?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1960.

2. How much time passed between the end of the Washington Riots of 1919 and the race riots that broke out in Chicago that same year?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 months.

3. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?
(a) 959.
(b) 47.
(c) 230.
(d) 370.

4. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Richard Wright.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

5. In how many American cities, in total, were Communist raids carried out on November 9, 1919?
(a) 9.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

6. The period called the Red Summer actually began in which month of 1919?
(a) March.
(b) September.
(c) May.
(d) April.

7. In what year was the 15th Amendment ratified, granting black men the right to vote?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1890.

8. Just under how many years after the first Red Scare in America did the second Red Scare take place?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 70.
(d) 20.

9. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?
(a) 300.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 100.
(d) 500.

10. In what month of 1919 did the Senate make it clear to A. Mitchell Palmer that "if he did not move boldly against the Red menace," (102) he risked being removed from office?
(a) January.
(b) July.
(c) October.
(d) April.

11. According to the prestigious organization called Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) how many black people were killed during the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 237.
(b) 58.
(c) 111.
(d) 34.

12. The House Un-American Activities Committee searched for communists who had infiltrated which industry?
(a) Gold mining.
(b) Steelworking.
(c) Film.
(d) Banking.

13. In what location did one of "the largest and most devastating riots of all" NOT "take place" (72) during the period known as the Red Summer?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Elaine, Arkansas.

14. Toward what location did the "ancient army transport ship" (105) called the Buford take its passengers?
(a) Norway.
(b) Greece.
(c) Germany.
(d) Russia.

15. The NAACP sent letters of warning to how many different newspapers, telling them that they were "sowing the seeds of a race riot by their inflammatory headlines" (74)?
(a) 2.
(b) 16.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what country did the Bolsheviks take control before establishing a Communist dictatorship there?

2. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?

3. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?

4. In what month did Senator Joseph McCarthy host his first event aimed at exploiting the rising fear of Communism in America?

5. Which black author wrote about the symbolism of the Northern United States in the early twentieth century?

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