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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. In what month of 1919 did the Senate make it clear to A. Mitchell Palmer that "if he did not move boldly against the Red menace," (102) he risked being removed from office?
(a) April.
(b) October.
(c) July.
(d) January.

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

3. Which black author wrote about the symbolism of the Northern United States in the early twentieth century?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been arrested?

3. In what year did the Bolsheviks take over a particular country and establish a Communist dictatorship?

4. The politician who held up a blank sheet of paper during a speech claimed that it contained the names of how many Communist members of the US State Department?

5. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was the leader of the second Red Scare and when did it occur?

4. What was the House Un-American Activities Committee and who created it?

5. How long did the tragic period entitled the Red Summer last?

6. What world event occurred in 1917 that helped to fuel the first Red Scare?

7. What was the event referred to as "the Great Migration" (67) and for what reasons did it occur?

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. Who coined the phrase the Red Summer and why?

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

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