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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. Who was appointed to lead the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) Ole Hanson.
(b) Jack Klugman.
(c) J. Edgar Hoover.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

2. 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) 1923.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1921.

3. Analysts determined that the metal used to make the molasses container had what quality?
(a) It was too thick.
(b) It was too flexible.
(c) It was too thin.
(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 provide the marchers with water and food.
(c) To carry the marchers along.
(d) To rip off the marchers' clothing.

5. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer had the ultimate goal of taking which office in the United States government?
(a) Secretary of War.
(b) Vice-president.
(c) President.
(d) Secretary of State.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was a policeman stabbed and killed during a 1919 May Day labor movement event?

2. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?

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

4. 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)?

5. In what year did the Bolsheviks take over a particular country and establish a Communist dictatorship?

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