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

2. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?
(a) The Chicago Defender.
(b) The Chicago Rally.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Chicago Freedom Fighter.

3. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing detailed information about how many people?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 60,000.
(d) 10,500.

4. 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 South America.
(d) The halting of all immigration from Asia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia by the end of 1919?

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?

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

4. Just under how many years after the first Red Scare in America did the second Red Scare take place?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was "the Soviet Ark" (104)?

2. What does Sandler believe was the primary motivation behind Senator Joseph McCarthy's decision to lead the second Red Scare?

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

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

5. In which three American cities did the three "largest and most devastating riots of all take place" (72) during the period called the Red Summer?

6. What did the Northern United States symbolize for the famous writer Richard Wright?

7. How did the Red Scare get its title?

8. What scene is captured in the photograph Sandler includes as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare and what is its significance?

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

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

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