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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. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer had the ultimate goal of taking which office in the United States government?
(a) Vice-president.
(b) Secretary of War.
(c) Secretary of State.
(d) President.

2. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?
(a) The locust.
(b) The corpse moth.
(c) The aphed.
(d) The boll weevil.

3. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 122.
(b) 69.
(c) 294.
(d) 43.

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) Washington, D.C.
(b) New York City.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Maryland.

5. Over what country did the Bolsheviks take control before establishing a Communist dictatorship there?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Iran.
(c) Romania.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?

2. The House Un-American Activities Committee was formed by which body?

3. Who was the most famous male anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?

4. Who was the most famous female anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was the leader of the first Red Scare?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. What effect did the words of W.E.B. Du Bois have on black Americans returning from serving in World War I?

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

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