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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 Los Angeles Times.
(b) The Salt Lake City Tribune.
(c) The Cincinnati Gazette.
(d) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

3. On what date did President Woodrow Wilson take action in regard to the Washington, D.C. race riots described in Chapter 3: The Red Summer?
(a) July 29.
(b) September 30.
(c) July 22.
(d) August 1.

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

5. In what year did the Bolsheviks take over a particular country and establish a Communist dictatorship?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1909.

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

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

8. The NAACP sent letters of warning to how many different newspapers, telling them that they were "sowing the seeds of a race riot by their inflammatory headlines" (74)?
(a) 2.
(b) 16.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

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

10. How many black sharecroppers attended the meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union meeting on September 30, 1919?
(a) 300.
(b) 30.
(c) 100.
(d) 500.

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

12. How many US states enacted laws making it illegal to fly a red flag?
(a) 12.
(b) 20.
(c) 46.
(d) 32.

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) Langston Hughes.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

14. Who held up a blank sheet of paper during the first event in his campaign to incite a second Red Scare?
(a) A. Mitchell Palmer.
(b) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Senator Joseph McCarthy.
(d) President Woodrow Wilson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The period referred to as the Red Summer actually ended in which month of 1919?

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

3. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?

4. 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?

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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