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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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) September 30.
(b) August 1.
(c) July 29.
(d) July 22.

6. 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.

7. The period referred to as the Red Summer actually ended in which month of 1919?
(a) October.
(b) November.
(c) September.
(d) December.

8. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?
(a) The boll weevil.
(b) The aphed.
(c) The locust.
(d) The corpse moth.

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

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

11. The House Un-American Activities Committee was formed by which body?
(a) The Senate.
(b) The State Department.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) Congress.

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

13. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?
(a) The Southeast.
(b) The West.
(c) The South.
(d) The East.

14. 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) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 90.
(d) 70.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been injured?

4. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?

5. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and served as head of state from 1917 to 1922?

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