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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Hammett and Hellman's money was running out, what did Hellman dream about?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Travel.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Jail.

2. Why did Hellman go to Rauh's office before her hearing?
(a) To go over her answers.
(b) So they could arrive together.
(c) To tell him her new plan.
(d) To pay him.

3. What did the Committee member warn Rauh about Hellman's letter?
(a) She needed to use it in her trial.
(b) She needed to keep it a secret.
(c) She needed to back off.
(d) She needed to deny it was her letter.

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

5. What did the article say about the proof against Alger Hiss?
(a) It was not regarding Hiss.
(b) It was trumped up.
(c) It was legitimate.
(d) There wasn't any.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the audience receive Hellman at the "Regina" premier?

3. What did Martin Berkeley say about Hellman in his testimony?

4. What was strange about the page?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why could the proof against Alger Hiss be easily discredited?

2. How did Hellman deal with her money problems while in D.C.? Why did she act as she did?

3. When looking back at the drama with the McCarthy hearings, what did Hellman feel?

4. Why did Hellman have to stop writing when returning from Rome?

5. What was the House Committee's response to Hellman's letter? How would she proceed with her testimony?

6. How did people know Hellman was at the London airport?

7. How did some radicals define McCarthyism justice?

8. What new information was revealed in the New York Review of Books, proving government corruption? How did the government respond?

9. Why did Hellman go to London?

10. Was Hammett happy at the end of his life? Why or why not?

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