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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. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) May.
(b) August.
(c) December.
(d) March.

2. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what US state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Texas.
(d) South Carolina.

3. Toward what location did the "ancient army transport ship" (105) called the Buford take its passengers?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) Greece.
(d) Norway.

4. In what year did Senator Joseph McCarthy's first event aimed at inciting a second Red Scare take place?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1950.

5. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what city?
(a) San Antonio.
(b) Macon.
(c) Houston.
(d) Charleston.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the molasses container originally built?

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

3. The group referred to as the "suffrage pilgrims" (45) stopped by the home of new president Woodrow Wilson, who lived in what state?

4. Which of his siblings was Martin surprised to pull up out of the molasses during the flood?

5. The construction of the container owned by USIA "was overseen by" (13) what type of person, rather than an engineer?

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