View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Red Scare.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the Bolsheviks take over a particular country and establish a Communist dictatorship?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1919.

2. According to the prestigious organization called Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) how many black people were killed during the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 34.
(b) 237.
(c) 58.
(d) 111.

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

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)?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 16.

5. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?
(a) The Chicago Freedom Fighter.
(b) The Chicago Defender.
(c) The Chicago Rally.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did the man have who ended up being tossed into the harbor after narrowly escaping other perils in the Great Molasses Flood?

2. How many feet high was the container that held the raw molasses involved in the Great Molasses Flood?

3. The box marked "Molasses" (26) in Chapter 1: An Amazing Event states that molasses is "produced by boiling juice extracted from" (28) what?

4. How many Western states had already granted women the right to vote by the time a national women's suffrage law was passed?

5. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer had the ultimate goal of taking which office in the United States government?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 217 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample