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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which black author and activist coined the term "the Red Summer" (66)?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Zora Neale Hurston.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

2. How many months passed between the end of the Chicago race riots and the start of "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (78) that took place in Arkansas?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

3. Over what country did the Bolsheviks take control before establishing a Communist dictatorship there?
(a) Russia.
(b) Iran.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Romania.

4. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?
(a) A church.
(b) A private home.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A town hall.

5. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and served as head of state from 1917 to 1922?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Mussolini.
(c) Marx.
(d) Lenin.

6. 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) January.
(b) April.
(c) October.
(d) July.

7. Which entity "released its official explanation" (105) of the reason why people had been deported on the ship called the Buford?
(a) The CIA.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The ACLU.
(d) The US State Department.

8. 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?
(a) 35.
(b) 75.
(c) 205.
(d) 105.

9. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?
(a) 800.
(b) 250.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,100.

10. The first race riot of the Red Summer took place in what month of 1919?
(a) August.
(b) July.
(c) June.
(d) May.

11. Who held up a blank sheet of paper during the first event in his campaign to incite a second Red Scare?
(a) Senator Joseph McCarthy.
(b) A. Mitchell Palmer.
(c) President Woodrow Wilson.
(d) President Theodore Roosevelt.

12. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?
(a) The Southeast.
(b) The South.
(c) The East.
(d) The West.

13. The photograph included as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare is set in which state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) California.

14. What system replaced slavery while at the same time doing little to improve the lives of those living within its structure?
(a) Sharecropping.
(b) Communism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Indentured servitude.

15. What percentage of the Washington DC population was white when World War I came to an end?
(a) 85.
(b) 60.
(c) 90.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?

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

3. How much time passed between the end of the Washington Riots of 1919 and the race riots that broke out in Chicago that same year?

4. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing detailed information about how many people?

5. In how many American cities, in total, were Communist raids carried out on November 9, 1919?

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