20. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 20: The Committee on Public Information and Wartime Propaganda

**Quiz for Document 20.2: Halt the Hun! (c. 1918)**

Quiz for Document 20.2: Halt the Hun! (c. 1918)

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1. The woman and child in this cartoon are intended to represent which of the following?

Innocent European civilians

Freedom and democracy

American women and children

Germany’s overseas empire

2. The message conveyed by this cartoon is most consistent with which of the following American wartime developments?

The creation of the National War Labor Board

The passage of the Espionage Act

Public schools’ ban on the teaching of German

The creation of the U.S. Food Administration

3. What is the implicit message in the cartoon “Halt the Hun!”?

Americans who buy war bonds will be protecting the world’s women and children.

War bonds will be the deciding factor in the war in Europe.

The purchase of war bonds will help American soldiers prevent German atrocities.

Purchasing war bonds will help to prevent German soldiers from attacking America.

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