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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. Which of his siblings was Martin surprised to pull up out of the molasses during the flood?
(a) Meredith.
(b) Bridget.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Teresa.

2. Who held up a blank sheet of paper during the first event in his campaign to incite a second Red Scare?
(a) President Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Senator Joseph McCarthy.
(c) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) A. Mitchell Palmer.

3. What color did USIA paint the container in an effort to camouflage its numerous leaks oozing molasses?
(a) Brown.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Black.
(d) Orange.

4. In what month of 1919 did the Great Molasses Flood take place?
(a) January.
(b) June.
(c) November.
(d) April.

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) 75.
(b) 105.
(c) 205.
(d) 35.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

2. To what city did Al Capone move in the year 1920?

3. Which newspaper proclaimed in relation to the Red Scare that "Free speech has been carried to the point where it is an unrestrained menace" (101)?

4. The women in the group called the "suffrage pilgrims" (41) began their long journey in what American city?

5. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?

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