24. Document Project 24: McCarthyism and the Hollywood Ten

Quiz for Document 24.8 Herblock, “Fire!” 1949

Quiz for Document 24.8: Herblock, “Fire!” 1949

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What message does Herbert Lawrence Block send with his image of “Fire!”?

Communists are destroying American liberties.

McCarthyism is suppressing American ideals.

The Statue of Liberty is on fire.

The “Red scare” is a threat to American ideals.

2. To whom does the image of “Hysteria” indirectly refer?

President Truman

Josef Stalin

Joseph McCarthy

Lady Liberty

3. According to the artist, what “fires” within American civil liberties was hysteria suppressing or extinguishing?

First Amendment rights

Right to a trial by jury

The right to peacefully assemble

The right to confront one’s accuser

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