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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The photograph included as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare is set in which state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) California.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Massachusetts.

3. The House Un-American Activities Committee searched for communists who had infiltrated which industry?
(a) Film.
(b) Steelworking.
(c) Banking.
(d) Gold mining.

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

5. In what month of 1919 was A. Mitchell Palmer appointed to the position of US attorney general?
(a) September.
(b) November.
(c) March.
(d) June.

6. How many months passed between the end of the Chicago race riots and the start of "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (78) that took place in Arkansas?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

7. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?
(a) 1,100.
(b) 500.
(c) 250.
(d) 800.

8. 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) 1921.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1931.

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

10. Which black author and activist coined the term "the Red Summer" (66)?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) James Weldon Johnson.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

11. The politician who held up a blank sheet of paper during a speech claimed that it contained the names of how many Communist members of the US State Department?
(a) 205.
(b) 105.
(c) 75.
(d) 35.

12. Over what country did the Bolsheviks take control before establishing a Communist dictatorship there?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Iran.
(c) Romania.
(d) Russia.

13. How many "suspected anarchists and Communists" (104) were arrested by federal agents in Communist raids on November 9, 1919?
(a) 350.
(b) 450.
(c) 200.
(d) 900.

14. 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)?
(a) The Cincinnati Gazette.
(b) The Salt Lake City Tribune.
(c) The Los Angeles Times.
(d) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

15. How many thousands of black people took part in the Great Migration, according to Sandler?
(a) 120.
(b) 500.
(c) 360.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the 15th Amendment ratified, granting black men the right to vote?

2. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people dead?

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

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

5. On what date in 1919 did a major race riot begin in Washington, D.C.?

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