back in TIME after a four-year absence due to wartime economies
(This test covers the period June 1 through September 20, 1946)
Prepared by
ALVIN C. EURICH, Stanford University ELMO C. WILSON, University of Minnesota
Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education
(Copyright 1946 by TIME Inc.)
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering the number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On recent TIME tests college students' scores have averaged 35, senior high school students' scores have averaged 40, junior high school students' scores have averaged 35. This test is given under the honor system--no peeking.
HOW TO SCORE
For each of the text questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example:
0. The President of the United States is:
1. Dewey. 3 Truman. 5. Wallace.
2. Hoover. 4. Vandenberg.
Truman, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3--standing for Truman--has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
U. S. AFFAIRS
LABOR FRONT
1. Slowly throttling U.S. production this spring was the big coal strike, settled in June when John Lewis:
1. Agreed his demands were unreasonable, signed a new contract at the old terms.
2. Wangled a good contract from the Government but got little or nothing the operators had not offered him in the first place.
3. Was drafted into the Army.
4. Was mobbed by berserk homeowners.
5. Won every one of his demands on the operators.
2. But a maritime strike, narrowly averted in June, broke out three months later and developments by mid-September included all but one of these:
1. Ship owners and A.F.L. seamen, agreed on a wage increase.
2. The WSB twice refused to grant a pay increase.
3. The Government overruled WSB, granted the A.F.L. demands.
4. The C.I.O.-- National Maritime Union-- went out on strike for the same wages granted A.F.L. seamen or better.
5. A.F.L. seamen refused to go through C.I.O. seamen picket lines.
3. Meantime, the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. bumped heads time and time again in their scrap to organize:
1. Midwest flour millers.
2. Northwest lumbermen.
3. Southern labor.
4. Washington, D.C., government workers.
5. Wisconsin dairymen.
4. And Congress passed the Lea Bill to try to control the labor practices of:
1. George Addes. 4. Walter Reuther.
2. David Dubinsky. 5. R. J. Thomas.
3. James Caesar Petrillo.
5. But Congress' major attempt to curb labor came to nothing when the President promptly vetoed the controversial :
1. Bell Bill. 4. Tydings Bill.
2. Case Bill. 5. Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill.
3. La Follette Bill.
BATTLE OF PRICE CONTROL
6. In July all price ceilings went off when the President vetoed the first of two OPA extension bills because, he said:
1. It merely legalized inflation.
2. It would hinder production rather than aid it.
3. OPA was no longer essential.
4. The controls for meat and dairy products were too stiff.
5. The producers' reaction to continued controls would be disastrous.
7. And the President accepted the resignation of his Economic Stabilization Director:
1. George Allen. 3. Chester Bowles.
2. Bernard Baruch. 4. Paul Porter.
5. Fred Vinson.
8. There was no stampede, but the biggest, fastest boosts came in:
1. Airline and railroad rates. 4. Steel.
2. Building materials. 5. Textiles.
3. Food.
9. Then Congress put through a new OPA bill which the President signed, declaring:
1. He would call Congress back into session to pass a stronger law if it failed to halt inflation.
2. It was about time Congress paid some attention to public opinion.
3. It was a "fraud."
4. It was a noteworthy step toward business prosperity.
5. "Prices must not rise for at least a year."
10. And in August the Price Decontrol Board set up by this bill exercised its sweeping powers for the first time when it did all but one of these:
1. Allowed rents to rise 20%.
2. Ordered dairy products and almost all grains to continue free of controls.
3. Put the ceilings back on meat.
4. Restored the ceilings on livestock, soybeans, cottonseed.
5. Restored the livestock subsidy program.
11. After OPA ordered meat ceilings back to June 30 levels, Agriculture Secretary Anderson:
1. Also restored ceilings on all other foods.
2. Overruled OPA, ordered higher ceilings.
3. Ruled that ceilings would last only until January 1.
4. Ordered farmers to comply or face criminal prosecution.
5. Resigned from the Cabinet.
WASHINGTON SCENE
12. With some big appointments to make, President Truman named Eugene Meyer as President of the International Bank, Senator Warren Austin as U.S. member of the U.N. Security Council and John W. Snyder as Secretary of:
1. Commerce. 3. State.
2. Labor. 4. The Interior.
5. The Treasury.
13. The President also appointed a new Chief Justice who was immediately confronted by:
1. A Congressional investigation of his record.
2. An intra-court row between Justice Jackson and Justice Black.
3. The biggest anti-trust suit in U.S. history.
4. The dread Dred Scott decision.
5. The resignation of four Supreme Court Justices.
14. Harry Truman promised to balance the Federal budget, but later declared the budget had been thrown for a loss by the:
1. "Expanded but justified expenditures of Federal bureaus."
2. Loans to Russia, France, China.
3. Tremendous decrease in expected income tax revenues.
4. UNRRA program to feed starving Europe and Asia.
5. Whopping $2,700,000,000 terminal-leave pay bill for enlisted men.
15. Meantime, Congress passed the Government Reorganization Bill, which does all but one of these:
1. Limits filibustering.
2. Limits the number of committees a Congressman may sit on.
3. Raises Congressional salaries.
4. Reduces the number of standing committees in each house.
5. Requires registration of lobbyists.
16. After seven months of hemming and hawing over the U.S. loan to Britain, Congress:
1. Increased it to $4,000,000,000.
2. Passed it by a substantial majority.
3. Recessed without voting on it.
4. Reduced it from $3,750,000,000 to $2,000,000,000.
5. Soundly defeated it.
17. Then Congress gave evidence of an increasing international outlook when it voted to:
1. Accept (with reservations) jurisdiction of the World Court.
2. Accept Britain's offer to share in governing Palestine.
3. Appropriate $2,000,000,000 for UNRRA in 1947.
4. Exempt homes of U.N. members from Federal taxes.
5. Join the World Monetary Conference in June 1947.
18. Meantime Congressman Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky had a sudden heart attack after the Senate's Mead Committee:
1. Asked him to represent the U.S. Congress at the naval atom bomb test.
2. Charged him with favoritism toward a Midwestern war combine.
3. Demanded his resignation for failure to attend meetings.
4. Hailed his plan to prevent inflation as "the Congressional contribution of the year."
5. Voted him the Congressman "most likely to be re-nominated."
POLITICAL NOTES FROM ALL OVER
19. Local elections in Athens, Tenn., captured the national spotlight when:
1. Boss Crump's machine was beaten for the first time in 25 years.
2. Negroes there voted for the first time since Reconstruction days.
3. President Truman stopped there to make a speech for his friend Sheriff Will Brown.
4. The new City Council voted to secede from the state and join Kentucky.
5. Veterans took over the town after an all-night gun battle with local officials.
20. Across the country, Democrats and Republicans blinked when both party primaries for Governor were won in California by:
1. Ellis Arnall. 4. Dwight Green.
2. Raymond E. Baldwin. 5. Earl Warren.
3. John W. Bricker.
21. In Mississippi "white supremacy" won re-election to the Senate for "The Man" and self-admitted KKK member:
1. Bilbo. 3. Ellender. 5. Shipstead.
2. Crump. 4. Rankin.
22. And another gallus-snapping, white-supremacy candidate, Gene Talmadge, rode to a third term as Governor of:
1. Alabama. 3. Georgia. 5. Tennessee.
2. Arkansas. 4. Louisiana.
23. Fast on the heels of Talmadge's victory came:
1. A threat to impeach him.
2. His announcement that he would run for the Presidency in 1948.
3. News that he had collapsed from the strain of the campaign.
4. The greatest wave of emigration in his state's history.
5. The lynching of four Negroes.
24. In Montana voters turned thumbs down on one of Congress' leading isolationists, Senator:
1. Edwin C. Johnson. 4. Joseph C. O'Mahoney.
2. William Langer. 5. Burton K. Wheeler.
3. Kenneth D. McKellar.
25. And a fighting liberal went down to defeat in Wisconsin when ex-tailgunner Joseph R. McCarthy ousted:
1. Congressman Joseph Martin. 2. Sen. George Aiken.
3. Politico Robert Hannegan.
4. Senator Bob La Follette.
5. Representative Sam Rayburn.
26. To run its Political Action Committee when Sidney Hillman died at 59, the C.I.O. chose:
1. Sewell Avery. 3. William Green.
2. Earl Browder. 4. John L. Lewis.
5. A seven-man board of directors, a five-man administrative board.
27. For the important post of Governor of New York, voters will choose in November between present Governor Dewey and:
1. Assemblyman Ives. 4. Mayor O'Dwyer.
2. Former Governor Lehman. 5. Senator Mead.
3. Major General Donovan.
HERE AND THERE
28. This September the U.S. received a whirlwind visit from a celebrated Briton who found America "an amazing country":
1. Lord Beayerbrook. 4. Field Marshal
2. Food Minister Strachey. Montgomery.
3. David Low. 5. Herbert Morrison.
29. Stocks made news this fall when they:
1. Suffered their worst decline in 19 years.
2. Rallied slightly from summer-long trading slump.
3. Held steady despite increased commodity prices.
4. Rose to the highest level since V-J Day.
5. Sold for the highest prices in Wall Street's history.
30. And the first U.S. citizen to become a saint is:
1. Amerigo Vespucci. 4. Cardinal Spellman.
2. Cardinal Newman. 5. Mother Cabrini.
3. Brother Alexander O'Grady.
INTERNATIONAL
ATOMIC AGE 31. During a routine House debate, Representatives Thomas and Sheppard revealed that the U.S. now has:
1. A bomb "twelve times as powerful" as that dropped on Hiroshima.
2. A virtual monopoly on the world supply of radioactive elements.
3. Destroyed all its facilities for making atom bombs.
4. Evidence that "another power" has learned how to make The Bomb.
5. "Something far more deadly than the atom bomb."
32. Early in July came Test Able in which Atom Bomb No. 4 sank:
1. Not a single one of the target ships.
2. Only one ship: the carrier Independence.
3. Five ships. 4. 87 ships.
5. Every ship in the armada.
33. And later that month the Navy staged another demonstration of atomic power (Test Baker) which differed chiefly from the first test in that the bomb:
1. Failed to go off.
2. Seemed to have no effect on the target ships.
3. Was a completely new and radical type.
4. Was dropped from a plane.
5. Was exploded under water.
34. Test Charlie, the explosion of Atom Bomb No. 6, was:
1. Called off when the Russians protested to the U.N.
Security Council.
2. Postponed indefinitely by presidential order.
3. Pronounced the most destructive test yet by Admiral Blandy.
4. Set off unannounced, almost created a Man-from-Mars panic on the West Coast.
5. The first of the tests to produce a tidal shock.
35. Meantime the Russians turned down a U.S. offer to destroy its atom bombs and turn over its atomic secrets if the Russians would:_
1. Allow U.S. to police Siberia's plutonium deposits.
2. Immediately lift the "Iron Curtain."
3. Oust Joseph Stalin, set up a bona fide democracy.
4. Promise not to extend the veto> to atomic controls.
5. Sign a 99-year non-aggression pact with the U.S., Britain, France. 36. And President Truman signed a bill under which atomic energy within the U.S. will be controlled by:
1. A five-man civilian commission.
2. The Army and Navy.
3. The National Research Council.
4. The President. 5. The Supreme Court.
CONFERENCES 37. When the Big Four Foreign Ministers first met to discuss the problems of the peace treaties, Russia made all but one of these demands over opposition from the other powers:
1. Recognition of Bulgaria's regime.
2. Sole trusteeship over Tripolitania.
3. Spain to be included in U.N.
4. $300,000,000 worth of reparations from Italy.
5. Trieste for Tito's Yugoslavia.
38. Nevertheless, the Foreign Ministers finally managed to come to all but one of these decisions:
1. Austria to be given an immediate treaty of independence, the Danube to be open to navigation by all nations.
2. Greece to get the Dodecanese Islands from Italy.
3. Italy to pay Russia $100,000,000.
4. Italy to renounce all claims to her African empire.
5. Russia to get the port of Petsamo, Rumania to get Transylvania.
39. And Molotov came up with a plan for postwar Germany in which he surprised everyone by proposing that:
1. A peace treaty should be signed at once.
2. Big Four zones should be merged immediately.
3. Germany should become a monarchy under the heir of the Hohenzollerns.
4. Germany should pay no reparations to anybody.
5. The Ruhr should not be separated from Germany.
40. Later, Secretary Byrnes countered with a bold speech at Stuttgart in which he proposed all but one of these:
1. The German people should be helped to set up a decentralized federal government for all of Germany.
2. U.S. troops in Germany should withdraw as soon as possible.
3. The Potsdam decision on Poland's boundary should not be final.
4. The Ruhr and Rhineland should not be split off Germany.
5. France should get the Saar.
41. Secretary Wallace promptly stirred up a hornet's nest in a speech at Madison Square Garden when he said the U.S. should:
1. Realize that no country has the right to a sphere of influence over any other.
2. "Risk anything" to save the British Empire as a bulwark against Communism.
3. Stake her claim to Near East oil with "the lives of American soldiers if necessary."
4. Stop trying to "get tough" with Russia.
5. Take a greater role in the politics of eastern Europe.
42. And Wallace was asked to resign only a few days after a special press conference at which President Truman said:
1. "The Secretary of Commerce had no right to deliver such a speech."
2. "For the second time, I approve this speech as a statement of the foreign policy of the U.S."
3. "There has been no change in the established foreign policy of our government."
4. "Let Wallace and Byrnes fight it out."
5. "The speech I approved was not the address delivered by Wallace."
43. Meantime, the Paris Peace Conference opened with a bitter dispute about voting procedure that ended when the delegates finally settled on a:
1. Simple majority vote for any action.
2. Two-thirds' majority.
3. Three-fourths' majority.
4. Unanimous vote.
5. Compromise.
44. All these countries applied for membership when the U.N. met at its new home at Lake Success (L.I.) but the only one to be accepted was:
1. Albania. 3. Outer Mongolia. 5. Sweden.
2. Eire. 4. Portugal.
45. At this same session, the Ukraine renewed Russia's persistent campaign to get the British out of:
1. Egypt. 3. India. 5. Turkey.
2. Greece. 4. Iraq. 46. As the situation in Palestine grew more and more serious, Britain called a conference to consider an Anglo-American committee's proposal that:
1. An unlimited number of Jews should be allowed to immigrate.
2. The Arabs should be thrown out and the country turned over to Europe's Jewish refugees.
3. The Arabs should be allowed to rule all Palestine unrestricted.
4. 100,000 Jews should be immediately transferred to Palestine from Europe; the country should be "federated" into three parts.
5. No more Jews should be allowed to enter the country.
47. The U.S. State Department got off two sharp notes and branded it "an outrageous performance" when Yugoslavia:
1. Arrested LaGuardia, held him incommunicado for ten days.
2. Brought down two unarmed U.S. transport planes.
3. Executed Marshal Tito for treason.
4. Labeled all UNRRA supplies "gift from the Russian people."
5. Moved troops into northern Greece.
48. And at almost this same time the U.S. summarily rejected a Russian bid to fortify the:
1. Dardanelles. 4. Karelian peninsula.
2. Isthmus of Kra. 5. Suez canal.
3. Island of Malta.
FAMINE RELIEF 49. In the first year of famine relief (ending June 30) the U.S. promised to ship 10,723,860 tons of wheat, actually shipped:
1. No wheat at all.
2. About half what she'd promised.
3. A little less than promised.
4. A little more than promised.
5. Double what she'd promised.
50. After widespread publicity about Russian spies in UNRRA, LaGuardia:
1. Eased out European UNRRA head Morgan.
2. Resigned to run for the U.S. Senate.
3. Said the only proved cases of spying had been by British employes.
4. Stopped all but emergency food shipments to Russia.
5. Telephoned J. Edgar Hoover to fly to Germany.
51. And early in September the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization tackled the problem of world food at the largest international meeting ever held in the city of:
1. Copenhagen. 3. Oslo. 5. The Hague.
2. Geneva. 4. Paris.
NEWS AROUND THE WORLD
Directions: Located on this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described. 52. Big Four Foreign Ministers met here.
53. Proposed internationalization of this area poses one of Peace Conference's thorniest problems.
54. Republic born on July 4.
55. Russia resumed diplomatic relations with this country after flaying her at San Francisco.
56. Where revolutionists killed their dictator-president, set up a new "tieless" government.
57. Hit by big quake on August 4.
58. The Marx Brothers run a spy-ridden hotel here in their latest movie.
59. President Truman succeeded in purging Congressman Slaughter here.
60. In August the U.S. bluntly warned this country that it was not living up to its agreement to hold free and fair elections.
61. Where the British are holding refugees who try to smuggle themselves into Palestine.
FOREIGN NEWS
EUROPE 62. By the end of Labor's first year in power, Britain had nationalized all but one of these:
1. Bank of England. 4. Insurance.
2. Broadcasting. 5. Steel.
3. Coal mines.
63. British Tories freely prophesied civilized man's end, and the embarrassed Labor Government faced widespread criticism, as Communist-led mobs in London:
1. Took over the House of Commons, locked out elected M.P.'s.
2. Stormed food stores, seized provisions.
3. Staged sit-down strikes in ten Government ministries.
4. Squatted in unoccupied buildings.
5. Barred entrances to London's famous clubs, prevented members from entering.
64. Speaking in his native Lorraine, General De Gaulle reversed his earlier policy when he came out for closer relations between France and:
1. Britain. 4. Spain.
2. Italy. 5. The U.S.
3. Russia.
65. Twenty-four million men and women rebuffed the Communists, voted against continuing the monarchy in the first national election held in a quarter century in:
1. Denmark. 4. Sweden.
2. Italy. 5. The Netherlands.
3. Norway.
66. Later, Bulgaria voted by more than 70% to abolish the monarchy of:
1. Humbert II. 4. Simeon II.
2. Leopold III. 5. Zog I.
3. Peter I.
67. And Greece, only Balkan country still outside Russia's Iron Curtain at summer's end, recently:
1. Asked that British troops remain in Greece permanently.
2. Authorized the return of King George II from exile.
3. Ordered all Communists deported to Yugoslavia.
4. Sent a stern note to Russia demanding that she remove her troops immediately.
5. Voted almost unanimously Socialist in her first postwar election.
THE FAR EAST 68. Full cooperation with U.S. policy in the Far East was promised by the Philippines' new President--fiery:
1. Sergio Osrnena. 4. Jose Laurel.
2. Manuel Roxas. 5. Jose Vera.
3. Ramon Imperial.
69. In China Madam Sun Yat-sen came out of long semi-retirement to make a public statement in which she:
1. Asked that American troops remain in China "indefinitely."
2. Called Generalissimo Chiang a "menace to China's unity."
3. Demanded "a louder voice for China" in drafting the European peace treaties.
4. Protested the new law further limiting Chinese immigration to the U.S.
5. Said China was threatened by a civil war into which reactionaries would try to draw the U.S.
70. In India the first all-native government was inaugurated under the leader of the Congress Party:
1. Chandra Bose. 4. Mohamed Ali Jinnah.
2. Mahatma Gandhi. 5. Jawaharlal Nehru.
3. Abdullah Ibn Hussein.
71. But in Calcutta and Bombay corpses littered the streets as Hindus battled fiery Moslems who want:
1. An end to the caste system.
2. "Asia for the Asians" through an alliance with China, Siam, Indo-China.
3. Britain to go on running India.
4. Gandhi to rule all India.
5. The separate state of Pakistan.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
72. Sweden was concerned this summer with:
1. A baffling fungus which threatens to destroy her forest industries.
2. An epidemic of the dread polar paralysis.
3. Earthquakes which buried some of her finest iron mines.
4. Millions of lemmings which descended from the mountains in their suicidal trek to the sea.
5. Reported mysterious flights of rocket projectiles.
73. The U.S. Weather Bureau announced that the summer of 1946 was:
1. The dryest since 1888.
2. Exceptionally humid from New York to San Francisco.
3. The coldest in history, coast to coast.
4. A little warmer than usual in the West, a little cooler than usual in the East.
5. Characterized by the most destructive hurricanes ever experienced.
74. "Fantastic as it may sound," said Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntyre, the Navy is trying to:
1. Develop submarine crews who will be healthy only when submerged.
2. Equip the blind with radar-like instruments that enable them to obtain visual images.
3. Graft whole limbs from newly dead to living persons.
4. Grow enough food on every battleship to feed its entire crew for six months.
5. Use hypnosis as a conditioner for men in battle.
75. And a Swiss manufacturer developed the Ipsophone, an amazing instrument which:
1. Automatically answers phone calls.
2. Enables deaf persons to hear perfectly.
3. Is a telephone that may be installed without wiring.
4. Permits as many as 100 persons to talk simultaneously over the same circuit.
5. Transforms the spoken word into typewritten copy.
76. Minneapolis, Denver and San Antonio were centers this summer of the worst epidemic since 1916 of:
1. Bubonic plague. 3. Rheumatic fever. 5. Typhoid.
2. Polio. 4. Scarlet fever.
77. Dr. Earle M. Chapman of Boston reported 35 out of 46 cases of goiter cured by the use of:
1. Carbohydrate injections.
2. Poultices made from turpentine and neutral spirits.
3. Radio-active iodine.
4. Surgery.
5. Work in atom plants.
78. Surgeon General Parran revealed that more than half of all the hospital beds in the U.S. are now occupied by patients with:
1. Arthritis. 3. Heart disorders. 5. Tuberculosis.
2. Cancer. 4. Mental diseases.
79. And Dr. Robert Elman, one of the leading U.S. authorities on burns, declared the best way to treat a victim is simply to:
1. Apply cold tea at once.
2. Hold ice to the burns.
3. Rub butter over the burned areas.
4. Soak the burns in a solution of silver nitrate.
5. Wrap him up, feed him well, let him heal.
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
80. Death came this summer to one of Britain's greatest writers, author of romances, realistic novels, scientific books and histories--79-year-old:
1. Arnold Bennett. 4. Sir Hugh Walpole.
2. John Galsworthy. 5. H. G. Wells.
3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
81. Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June was The Hucksters, Frederic Wakeman's sharp, satirical novel about:
1. Carnival people. 4. Radio advertisers.
2. Manhattan street peddlers. 5. Real estate dealers.
3. Oklahoma farmers.
82. Next to sex, the most profitable theme for publishers of recent American novels has been:
1. Crime. 3. Politics. 5. Science.
2. Medicine. 4. Religion.
83. I Chose Freedom, new book by Victor Kravchenko, is a story of the author's:
1. Conversion to Communism.
2. Experiences as an immigrant in America.
3. Experiences with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
4. Life in the Soviet Union and subsequent revolt against Communism.
5. Work in the Polish underground during the war.
84. And The American Scene is the latest in a series of reprints, anthologies and critical studies which have revived interest in the work of the expatriate American writer:
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald. 4. Gertrude Stein.
2. Henry James. 5. James Stephens.
3. James Joyce.
85. The Broadway drama season got under way this fall with a revival of The Front Page and a new play called A Flag Is Born which swelled to five the current attractions in Manhattan by Journalist:
1. Gene Fowler. 3. Ben Hecht.
2. Paul Gallico. 4. Damon Runyon.
5. Stanley Walker.
86. Shakespeare, Laurence Olivier and the movies combined to give each other a new brilliance in:
1. Henry V. 4. Romeo and Juliet.
2. Macbeth. 5. Taming of the Shrew.
3. Midsummer Night's Dream.
87. Sylvia Sidney and Robert Young preached an, angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats in Lillian Hellman's :
1. Clouds Over Munich 4. The Searching Wind.
2. The Green Years. 5. Watch on the Rhine.
3. The Little Foxes.
88. Anna and the King of Siam flew in the face of established Hollywood precedent by:
1. Casting all roles with complete unknowns.
2. Completely ignoring the young love theme.
3. Having Jack Carson get the girl for a change.
4. Making Gary Cooper a villain.
5. Reverting to the days of silent films.
89. Mark Hellinger turned a sinister little Ernest Hemingway story into a crisp, suspenseful, full-length movie:
1. Brief Encounter. 4. The Big Sleep.
2. Canyon Passage. 5. The Killers.
3. Notorious.
90. And British Producer J. Arthur Rank spent something like $5,000,000 to make a super movie spectacle of a play by George Bernard Shaw:
1. Androcles and the Lion. 4. Pygmalion.
2. Caesar and Cleopatra. 5. Saint Joan.
3. Candida.
91. After a three-year intermission for the war, Tanglewood at Lennox, Mass., was again the scene of a:
1. Dance festival under the direction of Martha Graham.
2. Festival of folk music starring Burl Ives.
3. Music festival headed by Symphony Conductor Serge Koussevitsky.
4. Summer art school sponsored by the Guggenheim Foundation.
5. Summer theater directed by Bette Davis.
92. Outstanding trend of the Manhattan art season, critics say, was toward:
1. Abstractionism.
2. Finger painting.
3. Religious subjects as in the Renaissance.
4. Sculpture rather than painting.
5. Stark realism.
93. Firmly established as the No. 1 U.S. song hit at summer's end was a ballad called:
1. Chiquita Banana. 4. Rumors Are Flying.
2. I'm a Big Girl Now. 5. To Each His Own.
3. My Sugar Is So Refined.
94. "Greatest since Carmen" said Serge Koussevitsky of Benjamin Britten's English opera:
1. Fanfare of Trumpets. 4. The Fifth Horseman
2. Peter Grimes. 5. Westward of Eden.
3. The Captain and the King.
95. And Arturo Toscanini made news when he cancelled concert engagements in London and Paris:
1. Because of poor health.
2. Because of the poor reception he received.
3. Because he was criticized for playing the music of Nazi composers.
4. In order to give additional concerts in America.
5. In protest to the Big Four's method of handling Italian affairs.
PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS
Directions: Each of the ten personalities pictured here is identified by one of the phrases below. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each picture) the number of the correct phrase.
1. "Annie Oakley."
2. France's shrewd Communist Vice President.
3. Singled out by the President as the villain in the figh: to abolish OPA.
4. He lost in Nebraska, won in Minnesota. 5. Star of The Stranger and producer of Around the World. 6. New Chief Justice of the United States.
7. A picture of this personality was pasted on Atom Bomb No. 4.
8. Nazi-loving Grand Mufti of Jerusalem barred from Palestine parleys.
9. Famed playwright who turned 90 this summer.
10. Colorful literary figure who died at 72 in July.
11. President Truman's "Harry Hopkins."
12. Star of The Outlaw and target of moviedom's Johnston Office.
13. Onetime hero executed for collaborating with Nazis.
14. Author of U.S. atomic bomb plan opposed by Russia.
15. Winner at Wimbledon and Forest Hills.
KEY TO CORRECT ANSWERS
Numerals printed in italics are correct answers to the 105 in this test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract number of Xs from 105 to arrive at your score. For example, if you missed 45 questions, your score would be 105 minus 45, or 60. This is well above college average. Do not look at answers until you have finished your answer sheet.
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