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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many "suspected anarchists and Communists" (104) were arrested by federal agents in Communist raids on November 9, 1919?
(a) 900.
(b) 350.
(c) 200.
(d) 450.

2. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1923.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

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

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

12. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 69.
(b) 294.
(c) 43.
(d) 122.

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

14. In what month did Senator Joseph McCarthy host his first event aimed at exploiting the rising fear of Communism in America?
(a) January.
(b) April.
(c) February.
(d) June.

15. 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) Macon, Georgia.
(c) Elaine, Arkansas.
(d) Washington, D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people dead?

2. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and served as head of state from 1917 to 1922?

3. Who was the most famous female anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?

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

5. In what year did Senator Joseph McCarthy's first event aimed at inciting a second Red Scare take place?

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