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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) August.
(b) May.
(c) December.
(d) March.

4. 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) Socialism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Sharecropping.

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

6. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and served as head of state from 1917 to 1922?
(a) Marx.
(b) Mussolini.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Lenin.

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

8. 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) 1923.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1925.

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

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

11. Who was the most famous male anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?
(a) A. Mitchell Palmer.
(b) Jeffrey Newman.
(c) Michael Andretti.
(d) Alexander Berkman.

12. In how many American cities, in total, were Communist raids carried out on November 9, 1919?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 10.

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

14. Over what country did the Bolsheviks take control before establishing a Communist dictatorship there?
(a) Iran.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Romania.
(d) Russia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many black sharecroppers attended the meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union meeting on September 30, 1919?

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

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

4. Sandler writes, "Communism is based on a system in which" what entity "owns everything and is responsible for distributing resources to every citizen" (96)?

5. 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)?

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