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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The period called the Red Summer actually began in which month of 1919?
(a) May.
(b) March.
(c) April.
(d) September.

3. What condition contributed to a severe labor shortage in the United States during World War I?
(a) The halting of all immigration from Asia.
(b) The halting of all immigration from Australia.
(c) The halting of all immigration from Europe.
(d) The halting of all immigration from South America.

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

5. Which newspaper proclaimed in relation to the Red Scare that "Free speech has been carried to the point where it is an unrestrained menace" (101)?
(a) The Salt Lake City Tribune.
(b) The Los Angeles Times.
(c) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
(d) The Cincinnati Gazette.

6. 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)?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

7. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?
(a) 294.
(b) 122.
(c) 43.
(d) 69.

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

9. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing detailed information about how many people?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 10,500.

10. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

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

12. 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) Los Angeles.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Maryland.

13. Who was the most famous male anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?
(a) Michael Andretti.
(b) A. Mitchell Palmer.
(c) Jeffrey Newman.
(d) Alexander Berkman.

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

15. 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) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 16.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the height of Senator Joseph McCarthy's popularity, what percentage of the US population "believed he was doing an outstanding job of rooting out secret Communists" (107)?

2. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?

3. How many "suspected anarchists and Communists" (104) were arrested by federal agents in Communist raids on November 9, 1919?

4. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?

5. 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?

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