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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which entity "released its official explanation" (105) of the reason why people had been deported on the ship called the Buford?
(a) The ACLU.
(b) The US State Department.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The FBI.

5. In what year did Senator Joseph McCarthy's first event aimed at inciting a second Red Scare take place?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1955.

6. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer had the ultimate goal of taking which office in the United States government?
(a) President.
(b) Vice-president.
(c) Secretary of State.
(d) Secretary of War.

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

8. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?
(a) The Chicago Defender.
(b) The Chicago Rally.
(c) The Chicago Freedom Fighter.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

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

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

11. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?
(a) 800.
(b) 250.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,100.

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

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

14. 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 Southeast.
(b) The South.
(c) The East.
(d) The West.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many US states enacted laws making it illegal to fly a red flag?

2. The House Un-American Activities Committee searched for communists who had infiltrated which industry?

3. What condition contributed to a severe labor shortage in the United States during World War I?

4. Who was appointed to lead the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

5. 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?

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