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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. What newspaper was "the most widely read black publication" (67) in the year 1919?
(a) The Chicago Tribune.
(b) The Chicago Freedom Fighter.
(c) The Chicago Defender.
(d) The Chicago Rally.

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

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

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

5. How much time passed between the end of the Washington Riots of 1919 and the race riots that broke out in Chicago that same year?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 6 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who held up a blank sheet of paper during the first event in his campaign to incite a second Red Scare?

2. Sandler states that those "who carried out lynchings made certain that, whenever possible, they were" what kind of "spectacle" (71)?

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

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

5. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sandler believe was the primary motivation behind Senator Joseph McCarthy's decision to lead the second Red Scare?

3. What role did the black press play in the Great Migration of the early twentieth century?

4. 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?

5. How were the expectations of black American soldiers dashed when they returned from fighting in World War I?

6. When and where did "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (82) take place?

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

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

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

10. How long did the tragic period entitled the Red Summer last?

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