John Reed (journalist) - Quiz
John Reed journalist
  • 1. When did John Reed fall ill?
A) October 17
B) October 2
C) September 25
D) September 20
  • 2. What was Reed initially thought to have when he fell ill?
A) Malaria
B) Pneumonia
C) Spotted typhus
D) Influenza
  • 3. What was Reed actually diagnosed with five days after hospitalization?
A) Spotted typhus
B) Tuberculosis
C) Influenza
D) Cholera
  • 4. Who spent all her time with Reed while he was hospitalized?
A) Inessa Armand
B) Emma Goldman
C) Bryant
D) Diane Keaton
  • 5. Why were there no medicines to be obtained for Reed?
A) Because the hospitals ran out of funds
B) Because of the Allied blockade
C) Because pharmacies were closed
D) Because the medicine was illegal
  • 6. Which side of Reed's body did he lose the use of before dying?
A) His lower body
B) The right side
C) Both arms
D) The left side
  • 7. When did John Reed die?
A) November 5, 1920
B) October 17, 1922
C) October 17, 1920
D) September 25, 1920
  • 8. Where did John Reed die?
A) Moscow
B) New York
C) Paris
D) Petrograd
  • 9. Where was Reed's body buried?
A) Red Square monument
B) Mass Grave No. 5 at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
C) Novodevichy Cemetery
D) In a cemetery in New York
  • 10. Who was Reed buried next to at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) C. E. Ruthenberg
C) Bill Haywood
D) Inessa Armand
  • 11. How many Americans have received the honor of being buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Five
D) Two
  • 12. Who is one of the other Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis besides Reed?
A) John Dos Passos
B) Robert A. Rosenstone
C) Upton Sinclair
D) C. E. Ruthenberg
  • 13. Who was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World and buried at the Kremlin wall?
A) C. E. Ruthenberg
B) Warren Beatty
C) Sergei Bondarchuk
D) Bill Haywood
  • 14. What did biographer Robert A. Rosenstone call Reed?
A) A romantic
B) A playboy of the revolution
C) A cautious observer
D) A traitor
  • 15. How did Upton Sinclair deride Reed?
A) As a naive romantic
B) As a radical extremist
C) As a playboy of the revolution
D) As a cold politician
  • 16. What did Reed become a symbol of for the communist movement?
A) The labor strikes in Chicago
B) The failure of journalism
C) American capitalism
D) The international nature of the October Revolution
  • 17. Where is Reed memorialized with a stained glass window featuring a hammer and sickle?
A) Moscow State University
B) The Harvard Lampoon building
C) The Kremlin Wall
D) The New York Times building
  • 18. Who directed the 1927 silent film October: Ten Days That Shook the World?
A) Sergei Bondarchuk
B) Sergei Vasilyev
C) Warren Beatty
D) Sergei Eisenstein
  • 19. What was Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 film based on?
A) Reed's book
B) Upton Sinclair's novel
C) John Dos Passos's trilogy
D) Robert A. Rosenstone's biography
  • 20. Who included a brief biography of Reed in his 1932 novel/history work 1919?
A) Warren Beatty
B) John Dos Passos
C) Sergei Eisenstein
D) Paul Leduc
  • 21. What is the name of John Dos Passos's trilogy that includes 1919?
A) October trilogy
B) U.S.A. trilogy
C) Insurgent trilogy
D) Red trilogy
  • 22. Who directed the 1958 Soviet film In October Days?
A) Sergei Bondarchuk
B) Warren Beatty
C) Sergei Vasilyev
D) Sergei Eisenstein
  • 23. Who directed the 1981 film Reds?
A) Paul Leduc
B) Sergei Bondarchuk
C) Sergei Vasilyev
D) Warren Beatty
  • 24. Who played Louise Bryant in the film Reds?
A) Diane Keaton
B) Franco Nero
C) Inessa Armand
D) Jack Nicholson
  • 25. Who played Eugene O'Neill in the film Reds?
A) Franco Nero
B) Warren Beatty
C) Jack Nicholson
D) C. E. Ruthenberg
  • 26. How many additional Academy Awards was Reds nominated for besides the ones it won?
A) Three
B) Nine
C) Six
D) Twelve
  • 27. Which Mexican director made Reed: Insurgent Mexico?
A) Sergei Eisenstein
B) Sergei Vasilyev
C) Paul Leduc
D) Sergei Bondarchuk
  • 28. What Mexican-Soviet-Italian co-production films were released in 1982 and 1983?
A) 1919 and U.S.A.
B) Insurgent Mexico and Reds
C) October and In October Days
D) Red Bells and Red Bells II
  • 29. Who directed Red Bells and Red Bells II?
A) Paul Leduc
B) Warren Beatty
C) Sergei Bondarchuk
D) Sergei Eisenstein
  • 30. Who played John Reed in Red Bells and Red Bells II?
A) Franco Nero
B) Warren Beatty
C) Sergei Vasilyev
D) Jack Nicholson
  • 31. What historical event were Red Bells and Red Bells II based on Reed's accounts of?
A) World War I
B) The Mexican Revolution
C) The American Civil War
D) The October Revolution
  • 32. Which Harvard contact did Reed use to help start his journalism career in New York?
A) Bill Haywood
B) Lincoln Steffens
C) Max Eastman
D) Ida Tarbell
  • 33. What entry-level position did Lincoln Steffens help Reed secure?
A) Landscape Architecture
B) The Saturday Evening Post
C) The Masses
D) The American Magazine
  • 34. In which neighborhood of New York did Reed make his home?
A) Manhattan
B) Harlem
C) Brooklyn
D) Greenwich Village
  • 35. Which publication was the first to accept Reed's work about his six months in Europe?
A) Collier's
B) The Forum
C) Saturday Evening Post
D) The American Magazine
  • 36. In 1913, Reed joined the staff of which socialist publication edited by Max Eastman?
A) Insurgent Mexico
B) Landscape Architecture
C) The Century Magazine
D) The Masses
  • 37. In which city did Reed experience his first arrest in 1913?
A) New York City, New York
B) Torreón, Mexico
C) Provincetown, Massachusetts
D) Paterson, New Jersey
  • 38. What was the title of Reed's June article detailing his experiences in Paterson?
A) The Pageant of the Paterson Strike
B) War in Paterson
C) The Colorado War
D) Insurgent Mexico
  • 39. Where was 'The Pageant of the Paterson Strike' held as a benefit for the strikers?
A) Greenwich Village
B) Madison Square Garden
C) Ludlow
D) Torreón
  • 40. Which magazine sent Reed to Mexico in the autumn of 1913 to report on the Mexican Revolution?
A) The American Magazine
B) Metropolitan Magazine
C) The Masses
D) The Saturday Evening Post
  • 41. Whose army did Reed share the perils of for four months in Mexico?
A) Pancho Villa's army
B) Federal forces of Mexico
C) Colorado Fuel & Iron Company militia
D) Venustiano Carranza's forces
  • 42. Who was the political chief ('Primer Jefe') of the Constitutionalist Army?
A) Bill Haywood
B) John D. Rockefeller Jr.
C) Pancho Villa
D) Venustiano Carranza
  • 43. What city's defeat by Villa's army opened the way for its advance on Mexico City?
A) Ludlow
B) Provincetown
C) Torreón
D) Paterson
  • 44. What was the title of Reed's 1914 book that collected his reports on Mexico?
A) The Masses
B) War in Paterson
C) Insurgent Mexico
D) The Colorado War
  • 45. On what date did Reed arrive in Colorado during the Colorado Coalfield War?
A) Autumn 1913
B) Summer 1914
C) April 30, 1914
D) June 1, 1913
  • 46. What was the title of Reed's impassioned July article about the Colorado conflict?
A) War in Paterson
B) The Pageant of the Paterson Strike
C) Insurgent Mexico
D) The Colorado War
  • 47. Which US President did Reed interview in the summer of 1914?
A) President Wilson
B) President Roosevelt
C) President Rockefeller
D) President Taft
  • 48. In which neighborhood and city was John Reed born?
A) King's Hill, New York, New York
B) Morristown, New Jersey
C) Goose Hollow, Portland, Oregon
D) Washington Park, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 49. Where was John Reed's father, Charles Jerome Reed, born?
A) Portland, Oregon
B) The East
C) London, England
D) Moscow, Russia
  • 50. Which private school did John Reed and his brother attend in Portland?
A) Morristown prep school
B) Portland Academy
C) Goose Hollow School
D) Harvard College
  • 51. In what year was John Reed sent to a New Jersey prep school to prepare for college?
A) 1910
B) 1906
C) 1887
D) 1904
  • 52. Who presided over the Socialist Club meetings that Reed attended at Harvard?
A) Charles Townsend Copeland
B) Henry Dodge Green
C) Walter Lippmann
D) Charles Jerome Reed
  • 53. When did John Reed graduate from Harvard College?
A) 1920
B) 1910
C) 1919
D) 1904
  • 54. Which favorite professor encouraged Reed's travels by telling him he must 'see life'?
A) Charles Jerome Reed
B) Charles Townsend Copeland
C) Walter Lippmann
D) Henry Dodge Green
  • 55. What did Reed believe the war was the result of?
A) The defense of freedom
B) The spread of democracy
C) Religious conflicts
D) Imperialist commercial rivalries
  • 56. Where did Reed and Dodge go after leaving Paris?
A) London
B) Berlin
C) Rome
D) Thessaloniki
  • 57. Who did Reed interview in Berlin in early December 1914?
A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Boardman Robinson
C) Eugene O'Neill
D) Karl Liebknecht
  • 58. Who accompanied Reed on his 1915 trip to Central Europe?
A) Boardman Robinson
B) Karl Liebknecht
C) Eugene O'Neill
D) Mabel Dodge
  • 59. What was the nationality of Boardman Robinson?
A) American
B) British
C) Canadian
D) German
  • 60. In which town were Reed and Robinson arrested and incarcerated for several weeks?
A) Petrograd
B) Chełm
C) Belgrade
D) Bucharest
  • 61. Where did Reed and Robinson get rearrested after trying to slip into Romania?
A) Russia
B) Italy
C) Serbia
D) Bulgaria
  • 62. Who secured permission for Reed and Robinson to leave after being rearrested?
A) German chancellor
B) French president
C) British ambassador
D) American ambassador
  • 63. Where were Reed and Robinson's papers seized?
A) Naples
B) Kiev
C) Constantinople
D) Bucharest
  • 64. When did Louise Bryant join Reed on the East Coast?
A) August 1914
B) November 1916
C) January 1916
D) April 1917
  • 65. Who was the young playwright Reed met early in 1916?
A) Boardman Robinson
B) Father Gapon
C) Karl Liebknecht
D) Eugene O'Neill
  • 66. In what summer destination did Reed, Bryant, and O'Neill rent a cottage?
A) Portland, Oregon
B) Peekskill, New York
C) Provincetown, Massachusetts
D) Naples, Italy
  • 67. In what month and year did Reed marry Louise Bryant?
A) November 1916
B) January 1916
C) April 1917
D) December 1914
  • 68. Which hospital did Reed undergo an operation in during 1916?
A) Mount Sinai Hospital
B) Johns Hopkins Hospital
C) Mayo Clinic
D) Bellevue Hospital
  • 69. What organ was removed during Reed's 1916 operation?
A) A kidney
B) His tonsils
C) Part of his lung
D) His appendix
  • 70. Who did Reed sell his Cape Cod cottage to?
A) Margaret Sanger
B) Louise Bryant
C) Randolph Bourne
D) Mabel Dodge
  • 71. What personal item did Reed pawn as his relationship with the Metropolitan ended?
A) His camera
B) His late father's watch
C) His mother's wedding ring
D) His typewriter
  • 72. Which arts magazine lost its financial backing and ceased publication due to antiwar articles?
A) The Masses
B) Seven Arts
C) Metropolitan
D) Tamburlaine
  • 73. Who authored antiwar articles alongside Reed in Seven Arts?
A) Eugene O'Neill
B) Randolph Bourne
C) Boardman Robinson
D) Karl Liebknecht
  • 74. In which city did Reed and Bryant arrive immediately after the failed military coup of General Lavr Kornilov?
A) Stockholm
B) Helsinki
C) New York
D) Petrograd
  • 75. Whose Provisional Government was targeted by General Lavr Kornilov's failed military coup?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Morris Hillquit
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Alexander Kerensky
  • 76. Who headed the Bolsheviks during the October Revolution?
A) Alexander Kerensky
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Raymond Robins
D) Lavr Kornilov
  • 77. For which new government body did Reed go to work, translating decrees and news into English?
A) Congress of Soviets
B) Military Revolutionary Committee
C) International Red Cross
D) People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs
  • 78. Whom did Reed work for in December when his funds were nearly exhausted?
A) Alexander Gumberg
B) Morris Hillquit
C) Raymond Robins
D) Edgar Sisson
  • 79. Which American journalist told Reed that he was being used by the Bolsheviks for propaganda?
A) Morris Hillquit
B) Edgar Sisson
C) Alexander Gumberg
D) Raymond Robins
  • 80. Who met with Lenin to show a prospectus regarding Reed's proposal for American capital support?
A) Edgar Sisson
B) Raymond Robins
C) Alexander Gumberg
D) Morris Hillquit
  • 81. In which prison was Reed held by Finnish police in Turku?
A) Winter Palace prison
B) Kristiania detention center
C) Kakola prison
D) Federal Building jail
  • 82. Who was Reed's attorney who promised to make him available at the Federal Building?
A) Edgar Sisson
B) Raymond Robins
C) Alexander Gumberg
D) Morris Hillquit
  • 83. What did Reed and Bryant defend upon returning to America?
A) The American intervention
B) The Bolsheviks
C) The Tsarist regime
D) The German army
  • 84. What charge did the government bring against The Masses due to Reed's articles?
A) Defamation
B) Sedition
C) Grand larceny
D) Tax evasion
  • 85. How much bail did Reed post on April 29 after the first Masses trial?
A) $5,000
B) $2,000
C) $10,000
D) $1,000
  • 86. In which city did Reed harangue a crowd of 1,000 about the case and the war outside a closed hall on May 31?
A) Boston
B) Chicago
C) New York
D) Philadelphia
  • 87. Why was Reed arrested after his May 31 speech in Philadelphia?
A) Trespassing
B) Inciting a riot
C) Robbery
D) Vandalism
  • 88. Where was the largest demonstration for Bolshevik Russia held in the United States?
A) Brooklyn
B) The Bronx
C) Manhattan
D) Queens
  • 89. Who grilled Bryant fiercely before a Senate committee exploring Bolshevik propaganda on February 21–22, 1919?
A) A Senate committee
B) A grand jury
C) The Supreme Court
D) A military tribunal
  • 90. Who was Reed's lawyer who successfully defended him in his Philadelphia trial?
A) Karl Radek
B) Ivar Lassy
C) Benjamin Gitlow
D) David Wallerstein
  • 91. What job did Reed take to work his way to Bergen, Norway?
A) Stoker
B) Cook
C) Captain
D) Navigator
  • 92. Who helped Reed pass through Finland during his journey to Moscow?
A) Emma Goldman
B) Ivar Lassy
C) David Wallerstein
D) Hella Wuolijoki
  • 93. Which activist recently arrived in Russia aboard the Buford when Reed was there?
A) Angelica Balabanoff
B) Louise Bryant
C) Hella Wuolijoki
D) Emma Goldman
  • 94. Whom did Reed suggest Emma Goldman see to hear criticisms of the current situation in Russia?
A) Grigory Zinoviev
B) Trotsky
C) Lenin
D) Angelica Balabanoff
  • 95. Who was the radical friend and future politician who helped hide Reed in Helsinki?
A) Louise Bryant
B) Angelica Balabanoff
C) Emma Goldman
D) Hella Wuolijoki
  • 96. On what date did Finnish Customs officials find Reed in a coal bunker?
A) 5 June
B) 13 March
C) 15 September
D) 18 May
  • 97. What alias did Reed give to the Finnish police before revealing his true identity?
A) Jack Reed
B) John Smith
C) Jim Gormley
D) Ivan Petrov
  • 98. How many small diamonds were confiscated from Reed in Finland, worth $14,000?
A) 102
B) 500
C) 50
D) 12
  • 99. On what date did Reed threaten a hunger strike while detained in Finland?
A) June 5
B) March 13
C) May 18
D) August 10
  • 100. When was Reed finally released from detention in Finland?
A) Mid February
B) Early March
C) Early June
D) Late September
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