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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 year did Senator Joseph McCarthy's first event aimed at inciting a second Red Scare take place?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1955.

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?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

4. Who held up a blank sheet of paper during the first event in his campaign to incite a second Red Scare?
(a) A. Mitchell Palmer.
(b) Senator Joseph McCarthy.
(c) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) President Woodrow Wilson.

5. How many people were deported using the ship nicknamed the "Soviet Ark" (104) in 1919?
(a) 249.
(b) 46.
(c) 128.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?

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

3. Sandler writes, "Communism is based on a system in which" what entity "owns everything and is responsible for distributing resources to every citizen" (96)?

4. In what month of 1919 was A. Mitchell Palmer appointed to the position of US attorney general?

5. What was the intended function of the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What action did the NAACP take against four major white newspapers in 1919 and why?

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

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

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