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Quiz for Document 26–4: Joseph McCarthy, Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Who does McCarthy blame most for harming the cause of the United States in the battle against “communistic atheism”?

Soviet spies operating in the United States

Privileged Americans with Communist sympathies working in government

Poor Americans who turned to communism to improve working conditions

Incompetent FBI agents

2. According to McCarthy, why had the American people so far failed to respond to the threat of Communist infiltration?

They had no evidence of the presence of traitors in the government.

The trauma of war had left the American people insensitive to internal dangers.

The American people were divided over the issue of communism.

They conceived of the Cold War as a conflict waged beyond U.S. borders.

3. What accusation did McCarthy make against Alger Hiss?

Hiss had helped produce agreements favorable to the Soviet Union at Yalta.

Hiss had leaked plans for nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union.

Hiss had recommended communism as the best outcome for China.

Hiss had ignored strong evidence of Communist infiltration of the State Department.