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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Red Scare.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The House Un-American Activities Committee was formed by which body?
(a) The Senate.
(b) The State Department.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) Congress.

2. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been injured?
(a) 40.
(b) 111.
(c) 84.
(d) 12.

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

4. In what year did the Bolsheviks take over a particular country and establish a Communist dictatorship?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1919.

5. 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) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Macon, Georgia.
(c) Elaine, Arkansas.
(d) Washington, D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sandler states that in the early twentieth century, a woman was unable to legally object if her husband decided to take what action?

2. How many US states enacted laws making it illegal to fly a red flag?

3. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?

4. Sandler writes, "Communism is based on a system in which" what entity "owns everything and is responsible for distributing resources to every citizen" (96)?

5. 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)?

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