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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many thousands of black people took part in the Great Migration, according to Sandler?
(a) 40.
(b) 360.
(c) 500.
(d) 120.

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

3. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been injured?
(a) 111.
(b) 84.
(c) 40.
(d) 12.

4. In what year did Senator Joseph McCarthy's first event aimed at inciting a second Red Scare take place?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1955.

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

6. On what date in 1919 did a major race riot begin in Washington, D.C.?
(a) July 19.
(b) July 4.
(c) June 30.
(d) July 6.

7. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1925.

8. 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) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) A. Mitchell Palmer.
(d) President Woodrow Wilson.

9. The "white press" in which area of the country in particular is described as having "made the situation much worse" (73) during the Red Summer?
(a) New York City.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Los Angeles.

10. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been arrested?
(a) 4.
(b) 43.
(c) 227.
(d) 116.

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

12. 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?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Elaine, Arkansas.
(d) Macon, Georgia.

13. The House Un-American Activities Committee was formed by which body?
(a) The State Department.
(b) Congress.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) The Senate.

14. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) March.
(b) May.
(c) December.
(d) August.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What was the intended function of the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

4. What percentage of the Washington DC population was white when World War I came to an end?

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)?

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