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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what location did one of "the largest and most devastating riots of all" NOT "take place" (72) during the period known as the Red Summer?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Macon, Georgia.
(d) Elaine, Arkansas.

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

3. 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) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 70.
(d) 90.

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

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

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

7. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia by the end of 1919?
(a) 30.
(b) 0.
(c) 1500.
(d) 300.

8. On January 2, 1920, Palmer authorized raids all of the country, resulting in how many thousands of arrests?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 24.
(d) 8.

9. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing how many hundreds of thousands of "cross-indexed cards" (100)?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

10. 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 FBI.
(c) The ACLU.
(d) The US State Department.

11. 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.

12. Which black author wrote about the symbolism of the Northern United States in the early twentieth century?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

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

14. 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) 75.
(b) 205.
(c) 105.
(d) 35.

15. The period referred to as the Red Summer actually ended in which month of 1919?
(a) October.
(b) December.
(c) September.
(d) November.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?

2. 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)?

3. 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?

4. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?

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

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