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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?
(a) 250.
(b) 1,100.
(c) 500.
(d) 800.

2. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what city?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Macon.
(c) San Antonio.
(d) Houston.

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

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

5. Toward what location did the "ancient army transport ship" (105) called the Buford take its passengers?
(a) Greece.
(b) Germany.
(c) Norway.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. How many white people were arrested during the Elaine Massacre?

3. How many black sharecroppers attended the meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union meeting on September 30, 1919?

4. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?

5. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the expectations of black American soldiers dashed when they returned from fighting in World War I?

2. Discuss the way in which the theme of injustice arises within the book's descriptions of the aftermath of the Elaine Massacre.

3. What action did the NAACP take against four major white newspapers in 1919 and why?

4. In what way are American freedoms shown to have ebbed during the first Red Scare?

5. What role did the black press play in the Great Migration of the early twentieth century?

6. What is the philosophy behind Communism and why are its results so often less than idyllic?

7. How did the Red Scare get its title?

8. Who coined the phrase the Red Summer and why?

9. Discuss an example of irony Sandler points out within a particular historical event.

10. In what way is the phrase "race riot" (68) misleading when it comes to a period of time like the Red Summer of 1919?

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