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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) August 1.
(c) July 29.
(d) September 30.

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

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

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

5. Sandler writes, "Communism is based on a system in which" what entity "owns everything and is responsible for distributing resources to every citizen" (96)?
(a) The king.
(b) The government.
(c) The individual.
(d) The church.

6. 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.

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

8. 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) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

9. 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) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Elaine, Arkansas.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

10. To what city did Al Capone move in the year 1920?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York City.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Chicago.

11. 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) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

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

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

15. 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?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 1 week.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what month of 1919 did the Senate make it clear to A. Mitchell Palmer that "if he did not move boldly against the Red menace," (102) he risked being removed from office?

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

4. Which entity "released its official explanation" (105) of the reason why people had been deported on the ship called the Buford?

5. What percentage of the Washington DC population was white when World War I came to an end?

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