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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Red Summer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The largest-ever suffrage parade attracted about how many participants?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 10,000.

2. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 294.
(b) 122.
(c) 69.
(d) 43.

3. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1931.

4. How many months passed between the end of the Chicago race riots and the start of "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (78) that took place in Arkansas?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what US state?

2. What objects were kept burning day and night in the tactic the NWP named, "Watchfires of Freedom" (55)?

3. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?

4. How many black sharecroppers attended the meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union meeting on September 30, 1919?

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

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