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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. The period called the Red Summer actually began in which month of 1919?
(a) April.
(b) March.
(c) September.
(d) May.

3. How many black sharecroppers attended the meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union meeting on September 30, 1919?
(a) 100.
(b) 500.
(c) 300.
(d) 30.

4. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Detroit.
(c) New York City.
(d) Chicago.

5. How many of Socialist Party members did the New York legislature expel "even though they had been freely elected" (102)?
(a) 12.
(b) 43.
(c) 5.
(d) 18.

6. On what date in 1919 did a major race riot begin in Washington, D.C.?
(a) July 4.
(b) June 30.
(c) July 6.
(d) July 19.

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

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

9. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people dead?
(a) 40.
(b) 116.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

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

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

12. 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?
(a) July 29.
(b) July 22.
(c) September 30.
(d) August 1.

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

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

15. Just under how many years after the first Red Scare in America did the second Red Scare take place?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 70.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the height of Senator Joseph McCarthy's popularity, what percentage of the US population "believed he was doing an outstanding job of rooting out secret Communists" (107)?

3. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing detailed information about how many people?

4. The photograph included as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare is set in which state?

5. 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?

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