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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. How many people were deported using the ship nicknamed the "Soviet Ark" (104) in 1919?
(a) 46.
(b) 128.
(c) 249.
(d) 500.

2. On January 2, 1920, Palmer authorized raids all of the country, resulting in how many thousands of arrests?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 24.

3. Analysts determined that the metal used to make the molasses container had what quality?
(a) It was too thin.
(b) It was too thick.
(c) It was too flexible.
(d) It was rusty.

4. For what reason did men lining the suffrage parade route in Washington, D.C. begin "surging into the streets" (45)?
(a) To block the marchers.
(b) To rip off the marchers' clothing.
(c) To carry the marchers along.
(d) To provide the marchers with water and food.

5. The "white press" in which area of the country in particular is described as having "made the situation much worse" (73) during the Red Summer?
(a) New York City.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Senator Joseph McCarthy's first event aimed at inciting a second Red Scare take place?

2. Before Ogden ruled that USIA would be held financially responsible for the harm it caused to victims of the flood, how many other corporations had been deemed liable for their actions in such a way?

3. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what city?

4. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer had the ultimate goal of taking which office in the United States government?

5. A reporter from which newspaper described the sounds associated with the disaster called the Great Molasses Flood?

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