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Quiz for Document 22–4: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, The Case against the “Reds,” 1920

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What, according to Palmer, was the ideal of communism?

Utopia

Poverty

Robbery

War

2. How did Palmer view Congress’s reluctance to act on sedition?

As a reasonable consideration of the scope of civil liberties

As a dangerous delay in preserving national security

As a political stunt to gain votes

As a flagrant refusal to enact the public will

3. What was Palmer’s strategy to overcome the Communist threat?

Mass deportation of immigrants who criticized the U.S. government

Strict surveillance of working-class organizations and neighborhoods

Defeat of the Bolshevik government in Russia

Faith in the resiliency of American democracy