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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1919, which American city "was regarded as the crime capital of the United States" (76)?
(a) New York City.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Los Angeles.

2. 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) 105.
(b) 35.
(c) 205.
(d) 75.

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

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

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

6. About how many thousands of black men served in the United States armed forces during World War I?
(a) 959.
(b) 370.
(c) 230.
(d) 47.

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

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

9. 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) 1925.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1923.

10. Toward what location did the "ancient army transport ship" (105) called the Buford take its passengers?
(a) Greece.
(b) Germany.
(c) Russia.
(d) Norway.

11. Just under how many years after the first Red Scare in America did the second Red Scare take place?
(a) 20.
(b) 70.
(c) 30.
(d) 50.

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

13. Who was the most famous female anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?
(a) Sally Schumann.
(b) Katherine Severinsen.
(c) Emma Goldman.
(d) Catherine Keener.

14. Sandler writes, "Communism is based on a system in which" what entity "owns everything and is responsible for distributing resources to every citizen" (96)?
(a) The church.
(b) The king.
(c) The government.
(d) The individual.

15. How many "suspected anarchists and Communists" (104) were arrested by federal agents in Communist raids on November 9, 1919?
(a) 900.
(b) 350.
(c) 200.
(d) 450.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was appointed to lead the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

2. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people dead?

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

4. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia by the end of 1919?

5. What type of insect invaded the South beginning in the spring of 1919, destroying entire crops of cotton?

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