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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date in 1919 did a major race riot begin in Washington, D.C.?

2. In what year did Senator Joseph McCarthy's first event aimed at inciting a second Red Scare take place?

3. In what year did the Bolsheviks take over a particular country and establish a Communist dictatorship?

4. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia by the end of 1919?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the Red Scare get its title?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Sandler use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Sandler’s use of the motif of sound within the nonfiction work 1919: The Year That Changed America.

Essay Topic 3

In what ways does Sandler use discussion of current events within the text of 1919: The Year That Changed America and for what purpose does he introduce these elements?

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