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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 leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing detailed information about how many people?
(a) 10,500.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 500,000.

2. 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.

3. 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) Maryland.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York City.

4. Who was appointed to lead the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) Ole Hanson.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Jack Klugman.

5. How many of Socialist Party members did the New York legislature expel "even though they had been freely elected" (102)?
(a) 43.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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)?

3. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?

4. What system replaced slavery while at the same time doing little to improve the lives of those living within its structure?

5. To what city did Al Capone move in the year 1920?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the significance of the date January 2, 1920?

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

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

10. How did the Red Scare get its title?

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