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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 having been arrested?
(a) 4.
(b) 116.
(c) 43.
(d) 227.

2. 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) 50.
(c) 30.
(d) 90.

3. Which black author and activist coined the term "the Red Summer" (66)?
(a) James Weldon Johnson.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

4. Who was appointed to lead the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) Jack Klugman.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Ole Hanson.

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

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

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

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

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 town hall.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A private home.
(d) A church.

10. 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) 1 week.
(d) 3 months.

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

12. Which newspaper proclaimed in relation to the Red Scare that "Free speech has been carried to the point where it is an unrestrained menace" (101)?
(a) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
(b) The Los Angeles Times.
(c) The Salt Lake City Tribune.
(d) The Cincinnati Gazette.

13. 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?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York City.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Maryland.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which black author wrote about the symbolism of the Northern United States in the early twentieth century?

3. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?

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

5. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what US state?

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