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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many of Socialist Party members did the New York legislature expel "even though they had been freely elected" (102)?
(a) 5.
(b) 43.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

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

5. How many people were deported using the ship nicknamed the "Soviet Ark" (104) in 1919?
(a) 46.
(b) 128.
(c) 500.
(d) 249.

6. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New York City.
(d) Chicago.

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

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

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

10. In what month of 1919 was A. Mitchell Palmer appointed to the position of US attorney general?
(a) March.
(b) November.
(c) September.
(d) June.

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

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

13. The politician who held up a blank sheet of paper during a speech claimed that it contained the names of how many Communist members of the US State Department?
(a) 105.
(b) 75.
(c) 205.
(d) 35.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?

3. The House Un-American Activities Committee was formed by which body?

4. On January 2, 1920, Palmer authorized raids all of the country, resulting in how many thousands of arrests?

5. What was the intended function of the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

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