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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what city was a policeman stabbed and killed during a 1919 May Day labor movement event?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Detroit.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Boston.

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

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

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

7. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing detailed information about how many people?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 10,500.
(d) 150,000.

8. Who held up a blank sheet of paper during the first event in his campaign to incite a second Red Scare?
(a) Senator Joseph McCarthy.
(b) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) President Woodrow Wilson.
(d) A. Mitchell Palmer.

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

10. 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)?
(a) 70.
(b) 30.
(c) 50.
(d) 90.

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

12. The NAACP sent letters of warning to how many different newspapers, telling them that they were "sowing the seeds of a race riot by their inflammatory headlines" (74)?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 16.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what country did the Bolsheviks take control before establishing a Communist dictatorship there?

2. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?

3. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

4. 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?

5. In what month of 1919 was A. Mitchell Palmer appointed to the position of US attorney general?

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