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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the Bolsheviks take over a particular country and establish a Communist dictatorship?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1919.

2. 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 Los Angeles Times.
(c) The Salt Lake City Tribune.
(d) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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

4. What condition contributed to a severe labor shortage in the United States during World War I?
(a) The halting of all immigration from Europe.
(b) The halting of all immigration from Asia.
(c) The halting of all immigration from Australia.
(d) The halting of all immigration from South America.

5. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?
(a) The locust.
(b) The boll weevil.
(c) The corpse moth.
(d) The aphed.

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

7. Sandler states that those "who carried out lynchings made certain that, whenever possible, they were" what kind of "spectacle" (71)?
(a) Secret.
(b) Public.
(c) Somber.
(d) Exclusive.

8. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

9. What system replaced slavery while at the same time doing little to improve the lives of those living within its structure?
(a) Indentured servitude.
(b) Communism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Sharecropping.

10. How many white people were arrested during the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 22.
(b) 83.
(c) 11.
(d) 0.

11. The House Un-American Activities Committee was formed by which body?
(a) Congress.
(b) The Senate.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) The State Department.

12. In what year was the 15th Amendment ratified, granting black men the right to vote?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1910.

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

14. According to the prestigious organization called Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) how many black people were killed during the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 237.
(b) 111.
(c) 34.
(d) 58.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which black author wrote about the symbolism of the Northern United States in the early twentieth century?

2. On what date did President Woodrow Wilson take action in regard to the Washington, D.C. race riots described in Chapter 3: The Red Summer?

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

4. 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?

5. Who was appointed to lead the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

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