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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. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

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

3. On what date in 1919 did a major race riot begin in Washington, D.C.?
(a) July 19.
(b) July 6.
(c) June 30.
(d) July 4.

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) Socialism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Indentured servitude.

5. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?
(a) The boll weevil.
(b) The locust.
(c) The corpse moth.
(d) The aphed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many thousands of black people took part in the Great Migration, according to Sandler?

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

3. Over what country did the Bolsheviks take control before establishing a Communist dictatorship there?

4. How many white people were arrested during the Elaine Massacre?

5. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and served as head of state from 1917 to 1922?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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