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