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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hellman's letter was considered part of ______.
(a) Her record.
(b) Hellman's dillusions.
(c) History.
(d) Communist propoganda.

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

4. Why was Hellman in Russia?
(a) As a cultural representative.
(b) To meet with Communists.
(c) To write.
(d) To hide from the Americans.

5. How does Rauh feel before Hellman's hearing?
(a) Angry.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Optimistic.
(d) Sad.

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

7. Marc Blitzstein wrote "Regina," based on Hellman's play ________.
(a) "Toys in the Attic."
(b) "The Little Foxes."
(c) "The Autumn Garden."
(d) "The Children's Hour."

8. The panel couldn't treat Hellman _______.
(a) Like an idiot.
(b) As uncooperative.
(c) Unfairly.
(d) Well.

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

10. Who was the anti-radical hero?
(a) Truman.
(b) London.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Hellman.

11. Of what did Nixon's election convince Hellman?
(a) Nixon's power.
(b) There was no good in the world.
(c) America had forgotten about McCarthy.
(d) America wanted to sabotage itself.

12. With little money, what problem did Hammett and Hellman face?
(a) The IRS took more money.
(b) Hammett became ill.
(c) Hellman wanted to move.
(d) Hammett's sentence was extended.

13. How did Hellman feel about the protests made against McCarthy?
(a) They were too strong.
(b) They were ineffective.
(c) They were inaccurate.
(d) They were powerful.

14. Hellman says the people who knew Chambers thought he was ______.
(a) Godlike.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Evil.
(d) Psychotic.

15. With whom did Hellman have a brief affair?
(a) Rauh.
(b) Odets.
(c) An old flame.
(d) Her first husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Hellman do at her hearing?

2. What did others say about Hellman in their testimony?

3. The Committee's neglect of Hellman's letter was a ______.

4. Hellman theorizes that the Cold War led to what other war?

5. Why was Hellman in Rome?

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