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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. The House Un-American Activities Committee searched for communists who had infiltrated which industry?
(a) Gold mining.
(b) Steelworking.
(c) Film.
(d) Banking.

2. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

3. How many "suspected anarchists and Communists" (104) were arrested by federal agents in Communist raids on November 9, 1919?
(a) 350.
(b) 200.
(c) 450.
(d) 900.

4. The "white press" in which area of the country in particular is described as having "made the situation much worse" (73) during the Red Summer?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Maryland.
(c) New York City.
(d) Washington, D.C.

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

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. Which entity "released its official explanation" (105) of the reason why people had been deported on the ship called the Buford?

3. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what US state?

4. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing how many hundreds of thousands of "cross-indexed cards" (100)?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did the Red Scare get its title?

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

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

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