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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 May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people dead?
(a) 40.
(b) 116.
(c) 2.
(d) 0.

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

3. Who was the most famous female anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?
(a) Emma Goldman.
(b) Katherine Severinsen.
(c) Sally Schumann.
(d) Catherine Keener.

4. How many thousands of black people took part in the Great Migration, according to Sandler?
(a) 360.
(b) 120.
(c) 500.
(d) 40.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location did one of "the largest and most devastating riots of all" NOT "take place" (72) during the period known as the Red Summer?

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

3. Just under how many years after the first Red Scare in America did the second Red Scare take place?

4. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?

5. The photograph included as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare is set in which state?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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