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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

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

4. 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) 1921.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1923.

5. On what date did President Woodrow Wilson take action in regard to the Washington, D.C. race riots described in Chapter 3: The Red Summer?
(a) September 30.
(b) July 22.
(c) August 1.
(d) July 29.

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

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

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

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

10. How many people were deported using the ship nicknamed the "Soviet Ark" (104) in 1919?
(a) 46.
(b) 249.
(c) 500.
(d) 128.

11. Sandler states that those "who carried out lynchings made certain that, whenever possible, they were" what kind of "spectacle" (71)?
(a) Secret.
(b) Public.
(c) Somber.
(d) Exclusive.

12. 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) 16.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

13. The period referred to as the Red Summer actually ended in which month of 1919?
(a) December.
(b) October.
(c) November.
(d) September.

14. In what year was the 15th Amendment ratified, granting black men the right to vote?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1910.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been injured?

4. What condition contributed to a severe labor shortage in the United States during World War I?

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

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