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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. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?
(a) 500.
(b) 300.
(c) 100.
(d) 1,000.

2. Which newspaper proclaimed in relation to the Red Scare that "Free speech has been carried to the point where it is an unrestrained menace" (101)?
(a) The Cincinnati Gazette.
(b) The Los Angeles Times.
(c) The Salt Lake City Tribune.
(d) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

3. What percentage of the Washington DC population was white when World War I came to an end?
(a) 90.
(b) 75.
(c) 60.
(d) 85.

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

5. In what month did Senator Joseph McCarthy host his first event aimed at exploiting the rising fear of Communism in America?
(a) February.
(b) April.
(c) June.
(d) January.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. Who was appointed to lead the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

4. The period referred to as the Red Summer actually ended in which month of 1919?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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