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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. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?
(a) 100.
(b) 500.
(c) 300.
(d) 1,000.

2. How many individuals did Ogden find criminally liable for the tragic events of the Great Molasses Flood?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 4.

3. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?
(a) The South.
(b) The West.
(c) The Southeast.
(d) The East.

4. What objects were kept burning day and night in the tactic the NWP named, "Watchfires of Freedom" (55)?
(a) Socks.
(b) Copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches.
(c) Garter belts.
(d) Copies of birth certificates.

5. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and served as head of state from 1917 to 1922?
(a) Marx.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Mussolini.
(d) Lenin.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?

4. In what month did Senator Joseph McCarthy host his first event aimed at exploiting the rising fear of Communism in America?

5. How much time passed between the end of the Washington Riots of 1919 and the race riots that broke out in Chicago that same year?

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