View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many white people were arrested during the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 22.
(b) 0.
(c) 11.
(d) 83.

2. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?
(a) 959.
(b) 370.
(c) 47.
(d) 230.

3. The House Un-American Activities Committee was formed by which body?
(a) Congress.
(b) The Senate.
(c) The State Department.
(d) The Red Cross.

4. What system replaced slavery while at the same time doing little to improve the lives of those living within its structure?
(a) Sharecropping.
(b) Indentured servitude.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

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?
(a) October.
(b) April.
(c) January.
(d) July.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the prestigious organization called Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) how many black people were killed during the Elaine Massacre?

2. In what year was the 15th Amendment ratified, granting black men the right to vote?

3. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

4. In how many American cities, in total, were Communist raids carried out on November 9, 1919?

5. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the philosophy behind Communism and why are its results so often less than idyllic?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,012 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample