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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) New York City.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Las Vegas.

2. 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) 1 month.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 6 months.

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

4. In what month did Senator Joseph McCarthy host his first event aimed at exploiting the rising fear of Communism in America?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) April.
(d) June.

5. 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.

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

7. What was the intended function of the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) To investigate Hollywood actors.
(b) To kill union officials.
(c) To seek out Communists.
(d) To spy on Russian leaders.

8. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?
(a) 230.
(b) 959.
(c) 47.
(d) 370.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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 East.
(c) The West.
(d) The South.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who was the most famous female anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?

3. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer had the ultimate goal of taking which office in the United States government?

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

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

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