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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. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?
2. The politician who held up a blank sheet of paper during a speech claimed that it contained the names of how many Communist members of the US State Department?
3. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?
4. The NAACP sent letters of warning to how many different newspapers, telling them that they were "sowing the seeds of a race riot by their inflammatory headlines" (74)?
5. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing how many hundreds of thousands of "cross-indexed cards" (100)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What world event occurred in 1917 that helped to fuel the first Red Scare?
2. What was the House Un-American Activities Committee and who created it?
3. Who coined the phrase the Red Summer and why?
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. What action did the NAACP take against four major white newspapers in 1919 and why?
6. What did the Northern United States symbolize for the famous writer Richard Wright?
7. What does Sandler believe was the primary motivation behind Senator Joseph McCarthy's decision to lead the second Red Scare?
8. In what way is the phrase "race riot" (68) misleading when it comes to a period of time like the Red Summer of 1919?
9. How were the expectations of black American soldiers dashed when they returned from fighting in World War I?
10. Who was the leader of the first Red Scare?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within 1919: The Year That Changed America and what is Sandler’s message regarding these themes?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Sandler’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of 1919: The Year That Changed America.
Essay Topic 3
Examine Sandler’s use of characterization methods to portray real people. What effect do these characterization methods have on the work's inherent themes and messages?
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