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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Nixon call Hiss's crime?
(a) A creative attempt.
(b) A disaster.
(c) The most treasonable activity ever.
(d) A minor issue.

2. Why did McCarthy plant the newspaper story?
(a) He was bored.
(b) To scare Hellman.
(c) To stimulate action.
(d) It was a mistake.

3. What disappointed Hellman about Americans during the McCarthy hearings?
(a) How few spoke out.
(b) How many people allowed themselves to go to jail.
(c) How many lied.
(d) How many people betrayed her.

4. What did Martin Berkeley say about Hellman in his testimony?
(a) She wasn't involved with Communists.
(b) She had a lot of secrets.
(c) She was a CIA spy.
(d) She attended Communist party meetings.

5. How did Hellman find out who was following her?
(a) She bribed the hotel workers.
(b) She hired an investigator.
(c) She set a trap.
(d) She kept an eye out.

6. What does the last chapter of the book state McCarthy or his men never did?
(a) Break the law.
(b) Admit any wrongdoing.
(c) Kill anybody.
(d) Take money.

7. What was the result of Hellman's hearing?
(a) She was sent to jail.
(b) She was awarded.
(c) She was dismissed.
(d) She was fined.

8. What happened to Hellman's reputation after her hearing?
(a) She becomes more popular.
(b) People forget about her.
(c) It gets permanently tainted.
(d) She is labeled as untalented.

9. How much did Hellman give her cab driver?
(a) $50.
(b) $100.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $10.

10. Why was London the place to extend Hellman's visa?
(a) They spoke English.
(b) They didn't listen to America.
(c) The embassy was nicer.
(d) They were efficient.

11. Why wasn't Hellman paid for her work in Italy?
(a) She did a bad job.
(b) She left early.
(c) She didn't have a work visa.
(d) The filmmaker was bankrupt.

12. What did Hellman believe about the liberal man?
(a) They were not all good or bad.
(b) They were extremists.
(c) They were a tool of McCarthy's.
(d) They didn't believe what they said.

13. What did Hellman testify about Bradeley?
(a) She didn't know him.
(b) He was a spy.
(c) He was a Communist.
(d) He was being honest.

14. The government wants to question Hellman to find out what?
(a) How she dodged them for so long.
(b) How writers control minds.
(c) How she was brainwashed.
(d) Who she worked for.

15. Hellman explains the government saw intellectuals as ______.
(a) Idiots.
(b) Supernatural.
(c) Enemies.
(d) Friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Hellman in Rome?

2. What did Rauh do with Hellman's letter during the hearing?

3. How did the panel members react to Hellman's answers?

4. The first day Hellman shops in D.C., what was she afraid of?

5. What would Hellman refuse to do at her hearing?

(see the answer keys)

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