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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what city was the annual convention held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association the year Alice Paul attended?
(a) Macon.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Charleston.
(d) New York City.

3. About how many black families are estimated to have become homeless by the end of the 1919 race riots in Chicago?
(a) 500.
(b) 300.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 100.

4. How many black sharecroppers attended the meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union meeting on September 30, 1919?
(a) 100.
(b) 300.
(c) 500.
(d) 30.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month did Senator Joseph McCarthy host his first event aimed at exploiting the rising fear of Communism in America?

2. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?

3. What objects were kept burning day and night in the tactic the NWP named, "Watchfires of Freedom" (55)?

4. What did the Washington, D.C. police do when "many of the marchers were grabbed, shoved, and knocked down" (46) during Alice Paul's suffrage parade?

5. 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?

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