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

2. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?
(a) A private home.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A church.
(d) A town hall.

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

4. In how many American cities, in total, were Communist raids carried out on November 9, 1919?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

5. Who was the most famous female anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?
(a) Sally Schumann.
(b) Emma Goldman.
(c) Katherine Severinsen.
(d) Catherine Keener.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location did one of "the largest and most devastating riots of all" NOT "take place" (72) during the period known as the Red Summer?

2. How many months passed between the end of the Chicago race riots and the start of "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (78) that took place in Arkansas?

3. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?

4. The House Un-American Activities Committee searched for communists who had infiltrated which industry?

5. How many people were deported using the ship nicknamed the "Soviet Ark" (104) in 1919?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When and where did "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (82) take place?

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

7. 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?

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

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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