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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 FBI.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The US State Department.

2. The photograph included as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare is set in which state?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Virginia.
(c) California.
(d) Massachusetts.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What condition contributed to a severe labor shortage in the United States during World War I?
(a) The halting of all immigration from Australia.
(b) The halting of all immigration from Europe.
(c) The halting of all immigration from Asia.
(d) The halting of all immigration from South America.

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

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

12. How many thousands of black people took part in the Great Migration, according to Sandler?
(a) 500.
(b) 40.
(c) 360.
(d) 120.

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

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

15. To what city did Al Capone move in the year 1920?
(a) Las Vegas.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?

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

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

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