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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. Over what country did the Bolsheviks take control before establishing a Communist dictatorship there?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Russia.
(c) Romania.
(d) Iran.

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

3. On what date did President Woodrow Wilson take action in regard to the Washington, D.C. race riots described in Chapter 3: The Red Summer?
(a) August 1.
(b) July 29.
(c) July 22.
(d) September 30.

4. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people dead?
(a) 40.
(b) 2.
(c) 116.
(d) 0.

5. The politician who held up a blank sheet of paper during a speech claimed that it contained the names of how many Communist members of the US State Department?
(a) 205.
(b) 75.
(c) 35.
(d) 105.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month of 1919 was A. Mitchell Palmer appointed to the position of US attorney general?

2. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?

3. The House Un-American Activities Committee searched for communists who had infiltrated which industry?

4. The photograph included as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare is set in which state?

5. Who was the most famous female anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an example of irony Sandler points out within a particular historical event.

2. What effect did the words of W.E.B. Du Bois have on black Americans returning from serving in World War I?

3. What did the Northern United States symbolize for the famous writer Richard Wright?

4. In what way are American freedoms shown to have ebbed during the first Red Scare?

5. Who was the leader of the second Red Scare and when did it occur?

6. When and where did "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (82) take place?

7. Who coined the phrase the Red Summer and why?

8. What was the event referred to as "the Great Migration" (67) and for what reasons did it occur?

9. What was "the Soviet Ark" (104)?

10. What is the philosophy behind Communism and why are its results so often less than idyllic?

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