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