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