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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The House Un-American Activities Committee searched for communists who had infiltrated which industry?
(a) Film.
(b) Banking.
(c) Gold mining.
(d) Steelworking.

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

4. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what month of 1919?
(a) July.
(b) May.
(c) August.
(d) June.

5. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 300.
(d) 100.

6. 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) 18.
(d) 12.

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

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

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

10. At the height of Senator Joseph McCarthy's popularity, what percentage of the US population "believed he was doing an outstanding job of rooting out secret Communists" (107)?
(a) 70.
(b) 90.
(c) 30.
(d) 50.

11. 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 individual.
(c) The government.
(d) The church.

12. 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) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

13. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) Langston Hughes.

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

15. The period called the Red Summer actually began in which month of 1919?
(a) March.
(b) May.
(c) September.
(d) April.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?

2. The photograph included as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare is set in which state?

3. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?

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

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

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