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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the most famous female anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?
(a) Katherine Severinsen.
(b) Catherine Keener.
(c) Emma Goldman.
(d) Sally Schumann.

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. How many US states enacted laws making it illegal to fly a red flag?
(a) 20.
(b) 46.
(c) 32.
(d) 12.

4. 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) 3 months.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 6 months.

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

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

7. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?
(a) The locust.
(b) The boll weevil.
(c) The aphed.
(d) The corpse moth.

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

9. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A private home.
(c) A church.
(d) A town hall.

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

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

12. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?
(a) The South.
(b) The West.
(c) The East.
(d) The Southeast.

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

14. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what city?
(a) Houston.
(b) Macon.
(c) Charleston.
(d) San Antonio.

15. 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 church.
(b) The individual.
(c) The government.
(d) The king.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the prestigious organization called Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) how many black people were killed during the Elaine Massacre?

2. How many of Socialist Party members did the New York legislature expel "even though they had been freely elected" (102)?

3. The "white press" in which area of the country in particular is described as having "made the situation much worse" (73) during the Red Summer?

4. Sandler states that those "who carried out lynchings made certain that, whenever possible, they were" what kind of "spectacle" (71)?

5. How many "suspected anarchists and Communists" (104) were arrested by federal agents in Communist raids on November 9, 1919?

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