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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. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?
(a) The Chicago Defender.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The Chicago Freedom Fighter.
(d) The Chicago Rally.

2. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing how many hundreds of thousands of "cross-indexed cards" (100)?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

3. What was the intended function of the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) To investigate Hollywood actors.
(b) To spy on Russian leaders.
(c) To seek out Communists.
(d) To kill union officials.

4. The group referred to as the "suffrage pilgrims" (45) stopped by the home of new president Woodrow Wilson, who lived in what state?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) New York.
(d) Maryland.

5. In what year was the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) created, with Susan B. "Anthony as its main driving force" (37)?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?

2. How many tons of molasses poured out of the USIA company's huge container, igniting the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

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

4. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what month of 1919?

5. "Over" how many "individuals and companies filed lawsuits against USIA" (29) in the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood?

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