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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?
(a) 47.
(b) 959.
(c) 370.
(d) 230.

4. Which entity "released its official explanation" (105) of the reason why people had been deported on the ship called the Buford?
(a) The CIA.
(b) The ACLU.
(c) The US State Department.
(d) The FBI.

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?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

6. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been injured?
(a) 12.
(b) 84.
(c) 111.
(d) 40.

7. 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.

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

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

10. What was the intended function of the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) To investigate Hollywood actors.
(b) To kill union officials.
(c) To seek out Communists.
(d) To spy on Russian leaders.

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

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

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

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

15. 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) 35.
(b) 205.
(c) 105.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who held up a blank sheet of paper during the first event in his campaign to incite a second Red Scare?

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

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

5. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been arrested?

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