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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of Socialist Party members did the New York legislature expel "even though they had been freely elected" (102)?
(a) 5.
(b) 43.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

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) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What system replaced slavery while at the same time doing little to improve the lives of those living within its structure?

2. The House Un-American Activities Committee was formed by which body?

3. How many people were deported using the ship nicknamed the "Soviet Ark" (104) in 1919?

4. How many black people were arrested in the melee termed the Elaine Massacre?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What scene is captured in the photograph Sandler includes as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare and what is its significance?

2. What world event occurred in 1917 that helped to fuel the first Red Scare?

3. Who was the leader of the first Red Scare?

4. What action did the NAACP take against four major white newspapers in 1919 and why?

5. What was the House Un-American Activities Committee and who created it?

6. In which three American cities did the three "largest and most devastating riots of all take place" (72) during the period called the Red Summer?

7. What effect did the words of W.E.B. Du Bois have on black Americans returning from serving in World War I?

8. In what way are American freedoms shown to have ebbed during the first Red Scare?

9. What was "the Soviet Ark" (104)?

10. In what way is the phrase "race riot" (68) misleading when it comes to a period of time like the Red Summer of 1919?

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