(This test covers the period late September 1946 to mid-February 1947)
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 1947 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 four answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet. On recent TIME tests the scores of students in colleges and junior colleges have averaged 47; in private schools, 43; in high schools, 38. On the October 1946 TIME Current Affairs Test, the scores of TIME readers (as reported in letters to TIME's editors) averaged 80. The 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
1. As Nov. 5 neared, Republicans coined a slogan that appealed to many Americans :
/. "Fight BO -- Bungling Officials."
2. "G.O.P. Means Go On to Prosperity."
3. "Government Should Serve, Not Run, the People."
4. "Had Enough? Vote Republican."
5. "No Meat? We'll Eat -- a Republican in Each Senate Seat."
2. During the campaign itself, President Truman:
1. Denounced Henry Wallace and all his followers in a speech at Madison Square Garden.
2. Issued a statement to the press in which he listed the candidates he would like to see win in each Congressional District.
S. Stuck to his self-imposed vow of silence on politi cal matters.
4. Stumped the country pleading for a Democratic victory.
5. Took to the air to deliver his most bitter blast yet against the "Taft-Vandenberg-Bricker Axis."
3. When they counted the votes, all but one of these was a result:
1. Republicans had won the House.
2. Republicans had captured the Senate.
3. Republicans had won more gubernatorial posts.
4. Organized labor had managed to hang on to most of its stalwarts, many of them Republicans.
5. Tom Dewey had gained prestige in the race for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. 4. But Democrats and Republicans protested in unison when Senator Fulbright said President Truman should:
1. Appoint five Republicans to the Supreme Court.
2. Fire Eisenhower as Chief of Staff.
3. Give Republicans a majority in the Cabinet also.
4. Name a Republican Secretary of State and resign from office.
5. Renounce the President's privilege of veto.
5. The triumphant Republicans at once set to work on their program for the new Congress which convened Jan. 3 ; you should know it is the :
1. 77th Congress. 4. 80th Congress.
2. 78th Congress. 5. 81st Congress.
3. 79th Congress.
6. Highlights of this program included all but one of these:
1. A call for an end to the President's war powers.
2. A drive to reduce income taxes.
3. A proposal to lop some $10 billion off government spending.
4. An attempt to reduce almost all tariffs.
5. An effort to balance the budget.
7. After a struggle, the House of Representatives named as majority leader :
L Charles A. Halleck. 4. Thomas A. Jenkins.
2. Clarence Brown. 5. Vito Marcantonio.
3. Everett M. Dirksen.
8. And in the Senate all but one of these men emerged as dominant figures in the new Congress :
1. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan.
2. Claude Pepper of Florida.
3. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska.
4. Robert A. Taft of Ohio.
5. Wallace H. White Jr. of Maine.
9. First important legislation passed by the new House was the bill acceding to President Truman's request for a:
1. Ban on strikes against the Government.
2. Ban on strikes in "vital industries."
3. Continuance of luxury taxes.
4. Larger number of Supreme Court Justices.
5. Reorganization of the Executive Branch.
10. Meantime, in mid-December, this man became the first Republican to announce his candidacy for the 1948 presidential nomination:
1. Arthur H. Vandenberg. 4. Robert A. Taft.
2. Earl Warren. 5. Thomas E. Dewey.
3. Harold E. Stassen.
STATE OF THE UNION
11. Four days after the election the U.S. headed back toward a free economy when the President brushed off price controls on everything but:
1. Automobiles. 4. Sugar, rice, rents.
2. Butter, lards, fats. 5. Wages and salaries.
3. Clothing.
12. On New Year's Eve, the President formally terminated the period of "hostilities" in World War II, and one of the most striking effects of this action was to end the Government's right to:
1. Draft men into the armed forces.
2. Make reciprocal trade agreements.
3. Seize struck plants.
4. Set wage and price ceilings.
5. Tax corporate profits.
13. Within the following week, the President delivered a State of the Union Message, an Economic Report and, a Budget Message in which he did all but one of these:
1. Asked for a budget of $37.5 billion with no reduction in present taxes.
2. Called for legislation to increase the security of the nation's workers.
3. Called for legislation to outlaw jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts.
4. Demanded a law to throw out portal-to-portal pay suits.
5. Dismissed foreign policy and foreign trade with a lick and a promise.
14. By far the largest single item in the new budget ($11.2 billion) was for :
L Army & Navy. 4. Transport.
2. Interest on national debt. 5. Veterans' services.
3. International affairs. 15. The Army & Navy agreed on a plan for "unification" under which the Air Force was:
1. Made a part of the Army.
2. Made a part of the Navy.
3. Split between the Army & Navy.
4. Made an independent branch of the services.
5. Given control over both Army & Navy forces.
LABOR, MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS & FINANCE
16. John L. Lewis and the people went to the mat again in November, but the Coal Boss ordered his miners back to work (until March 31) after:
1. Truman called a special session of Congress to pass drastic anti-labor legislation.
2. A Federal court held Lewis in contempt, fined the U.M.W. $3.5 million.
3. Eisenhower drafted striking miners.
4. Attorney General Clark jailed Lewis.
5. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach ordered the Army to run the mines.
17. Management's biggest headache at January's end was the almost $5 billion in suits filed by Labor:
1. Against industry for maintaining company unions.
2. As damages for lockouts in four key industries.
3. Claiming slander by the N.A.M. against C.I.O. and A.F.L. leaders.
4. In compensation for pay lost by wildcat strikes.
5. To collect portal-to-portal back pay.
18. But soon after the first of the year came evidence of a new relationship between management and labor when contracts were extended in:
1. The aircraft industry. 4. The railroad industry.
2. Autos and steel. 5. Shipping concerns.
3. The printing trades.
19. Henry Ford II made news in January when he announced that his company would:
1. Be forced to raise prices as much as $125 to meet new demands from the U.A.W.
2. Cut prices from $15 to $50 on all Ford models.
3. Immediately give its workers a 30-c--an-hour wage increase.
4. Make no more cars until an end had come to "the insane spiral of costs and prices."
5. Produce an atom-powered car in 1948.
20. And New York Central stock rose steadily as news came out that the line might soon:
1. Top all other U.S. railroads in earnings.
2. Be controlled by Robert R. Young of Alleghany Corp.
3. Declare a whopping dividend--biggest in the history of U.S. railroading.
4. Introduce a revolutionary new kind of coach--safer, faster, more luxurious.
5. Slash rates to increase its freight and passenger traffic an estimated 30%.
21. Meantime the Federal Reserve Board fired the first round in the new war on deflation by ruling that people may now buy stocks on a cash payment of:
1. 5%. 3. 50%. 5. 100%.
2. 25%. 4. 75%.
22. And good news for consumers was the fact that by the end of January all but one of these major commodities had fallen substantially in price:
1. Butter. 3. Heavy metals. 5. Wheat.
2. Cotton. 4. Livestock.
HERE AND THERE
23. The Army proved that transpolar air war was possible when it flew the Boeing Superfortress Pacusan Dreamboat over the Arctic from:
1. Alaska to Iceland. 4. New York to Tokyo.
2. Guam to the Azores. 5. San Francisco to Perth,
3. Hawaii to Cairo. Australia.
24. In Georgia the death of Gene Talmadge led to a bitter "Battle of the Governors" among Herman Talmadge, Ellis Arnall and:
1. D. Talmadge Bowers.
2. Ed Crump. 4. John Rankin.
3. J. V. Carmichael. 5. Melvin E. Thompson.
25. In a surprising change of front, the cautious, conservative National Educational Assn. called on teachers to:
1. Apply the doctrines of "progressive" education wherever possible.
2. Campaign for courses in marriage relations.
3. Hit their school boards for general raises.
4. Study the writings of Karl Marx as well as those of Adam Smith.
5. Teach less from textbooks, more from "personal experience." 26. The winner of the Wendell Willkie One World Award began a powerful series of broadcasts; he is:
1. Eric Johnston.
2. Howard Fast.
3. John Foster Dulles.
4. Louis Adamic.
5. Norman Corwin.
27. "Steve Canyon," Milton Caniff's new comic strip hero is a:
1. Cadet at West Point.
2. Famous war correspondent now operating in the Balkans.
3. Flyer who runs an aviation taxi service around the world.
4. Free-lance explorer currently mixed up with a tribe of devil-worshippers in Arabia.
5. U.S. Army Major who-does secret service work in the Orient.
INTERNATIONAL
ATOMIC AGE
28. Sixteen months and 23 days after Hiroshima, the U.N.
Atomic Energy Commission recommended all but one of these in a plan to control the atom:
1. An international authority with a monopoly over atomic affairs.
2. Bernard Baruch as chairman of the international authority.
3. Prohibition of the manufacture of atomic weapons and destruction of existing A-bombs after transition to international controls.
4. A system of vetoless international inspection to prevent illegal atomic operations.
5. A system of "swift and certain" punishment for violators.
29. Meantime, politicos sniped at the President's choice to head the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission:
1. Carrol L. Wilson.
2. David E. Lilienthal.
3. Lewis L. Strauss.
4. Robert Fox Bacher.
5. Major General Leslie R. Groves.
THE LEADERS SPEAK
30. On the heels of Henry Wallace's "stop getting tough with Russia" speech, Radio Moscow broadcast a statement in which Stalin did all but one of these:
L Said there was no real danger of war.
2. Declared Western capitalism could not encircle Russia if it tried.
3. Stated his belief that Russia and the West could cooperate under the "Communism in one country" formula.
4. Said the democracies should find no cause for alarm in the fact that foreign Communist parties are controlled by Russia.
5. Pooh-poohed the power of the atom bomb but said it constituted a threat to world peace anyway.
31. Five weeks later, Stalin broke the silence again, made all but one of these points in reply to questions from U.P. President Hugh Baillie:
/. Germany should be a political-economic unit.
2. Russia finds the presence of British troops in Greece "unnecessary."
3. Russia has no atom bomb.
4. Russia "views with interest" Churchill's proposal for a United States of Europe.
5. Tension between Russia and the U.S. was not increasing.
32. Earlier, in a memorable speech at Stuttgart, State Secretary Byrnes stated one hard fact--that:
1. More U.S. troops would be sent to Germany soon.
2. Russia must withdraw from Germany before Jan. 1, 1948.
3. The U.S. had no intention of withdrawing: troops from Germany now.
4. The U.S. would withdraw all troops from Germany by Jan. 1, 1948.
5. War with Russia was inevitable.
33. In his first speech after returning from Paris, Byrnes characterized U.S. foreign policy as:_
1. Determinedly protective of U.S. interests in southeastern Europe.
2. One of conciliation.
3. Patient but firm treatment toward Russia.
4. Pro-British and pro-all other democratic states.
5. "Wishy-washy." 34. "What does the world expect of the U.S.?" and "What is the U.S. going to do about it?" were the two questions world leaders discussed at the 21st Institute of the Council on World Affairs in:
1. Boston. 4. San Francisco.
2. Cleveland. . 5. Washington, D.C.
3. Minneapolis.
35. On the eve of Yom Kippur President Truman spoke out on Palestine, bluntly demanded that Britain:
1. Admit Zionists to the parleys in London.
2. Internationalize Palestine under the U.N. Security Council.
3. Let a "substantial" number of Jews into Palestine at once.
4. Release refugees who cross into Palestine.
5. Withdraw its troops from the Holy Land within thirty days.
36. Marshal Sokolovsky intimated Russia's willingness to accept Secretary Byrnes's longstanding invitation for joint administration of Germany--at a price:
L Complete control of the Dardanelles.
2. France must return Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.
3. The U.S. will acknowledge Russia's right to veto international control of atomic power.
4. Two billion in German goods annually.
5. U.S. "interference" in Balkan elections must cease.
37. And in January the general public learned for the first time that Russia is interested in obtaining military facilities on the bleak archipelago of:
1. Bismarck. 4. Spitsbergen.
2. Chonos. 5. Tierra del Fuego.
3. Dampier.
THE NATIONS MEET.
38. On Oct. 23 the United Nations opened the first U.S. meeting of the General Assembly at:
L Fairfield, Conn. 4. The site of the New
2. Philadelphia. York World's Fair.
3. San Francisco. 5. Washington, D.C.
39. Russia's Molotov soon demanded:
L Admission of two Siberian republics to full membership in U.N.
2. General disarmament.
3. An end to the Four Zone rule of Germany.
4. Removal of U.N. to Moscow.
5. Restriction of the veto.
40. U.S. Delegate Austin then said the U.S. would:
1. Insist on the rights of small nations to be heard in the Assembly.
2. Oppose Russia in her stand against abolishing the Big Four veto.
3. Reveal information on atomic bombs to any nation which proved itself "worthy of trust."
4. Reveal the size of its armies in Allied territories but not in former enemy territories.
5. Support Russia's disarmament proposal provided disarmament was internationally inspected.
41. The Assembly agreed on this issue and several others when it did all but one of these:
1. Accepted a permanent U.N. site offered by John D. Rockefeller Jr. on Manhattan's East River.
2. Called on veto-wielding powers to use restraint.
3. Gave UNRRA another year of life.
4. Recommended that Spain be barred from all U.N. organizations.
5. Unanimously adopted a resolution on principles governing the regulation and reduction of armaments, but left the question of a troop census under discussion.
THE BIG FOUR CONFER
42. After weeks of tough infighting and hard bargaining on the Trieste issue, the Big Four Foreign Ministers by Thanksgiving Day had agreed to all but one of these:
/. Neither Italy nor Yugoslavia will control Trieste.
2. Italy will receive Gorizia from Yugoslavia in return for giving up Trieste.
3. A Governor will appoint a Provisional Council.
4. Elections will be held within four months after the Governor takes over.
5. Troops will withdraw when the Governor decides order can be maintained without them.
43. On the troublesome question of the Danube, Molotov:
1. Continued to remain silent.
2. Refused to change his former attitude.
3. Increased Russia's demands.
4. Gave in slightly, offered to submit the whole controversy to the General Assembly.
5. Made a concession, agreed to freedom of navigation. 44. Then the Ministers decided to meet again in Moscow on March 10 to discuss the major question of:
1. Peace treaties with Germany and Austria.
2. Permanent headquarters for U.N.
3. Reparations.
4. The veto.
5. Who shall serve as General of the U.N. Armies.
FOREIGN NEWS
EUROPE
45. Embarrassing Britain's Government at year's end was a rebellion by Laborites critical of:
1. Attlee's offer to return the Sudan to Egypt.
2. Bevin's foreign policy.
3. Failure to nationalize all food production.
4. The Government's friendly policy toward Russia.
5. Slow demobilization.
46. The British program of nationalization moved a step forward in January when the Government took over:
/. Coal mines. 4. Newspapers.
2. Gas and electric utilities. 5. Railroads.
3. Iron and steel.
47. And the Socialist Government then published two bills which would give it almost unparalleled powers over:
1. All British banking.
2. All communications services.
3. British manufacturing.
4. The land and everything "in, on, under or over" it.
5. Transport facilities of every kind.
48. At the same time, the Labor Government faced its first important labor crisis, had to call out Tommies before settling the wildcat strike of:
L Steel workers. 4. Mill workers.
2. Dock hands. 5. Coal miners.
3. Truckmen.
49. To be the first President of the Fourth Republic, the French National Assembly and Council of the Republic chose Socialist:
/. Felix Gouin. 4. Leon Blum.
2. Georges Bidault. 5. Vincent Auriol.
3. Jacques Duclos.
50. In Berlin's first free elections in 13 years the Russian-backed SED (Socialist Unity Party) was:
L Forced to withdraw from the ballotting by the pressure of free German opinion.
2. Crushingly beaten by parties which had U.S.-Brit-ish sympathy.
3. Narrowly nosed out by the Liberals.
4. The victor by a close margin.
5. Voted into power by an overwhelming majority.
51. Commanding General of U.S. troops in Europe and Commander in Chief of U.S. occupation forces in Germany is now smooth, hard-working Lieut. General:
1. Geoffrey Keyes. 4. Mark W. Clark.
2. Joseph T. McNarney. 5. Walter Bedell Smith.
3. Lucius D. Clay.
52. In January, as another step toward "preventing any fur ther agression by Germany," a military alliance was ar ranged between:
1. England and Russia. 4. France and Italy.
2. England and France. 5. Czechoslovakia 3. France and Russia. and Poland.
53. For imprisoning Archbishop Stepinac, Yugoslavia's Tito and most of his officials were:
1. Branded "postwar fascists" by the U.S. State Department.
2. Censured by the U.N. Security Council, barred from final meetings of the Paris Peace Conference.
3. Excommunicated by the Catholic Church.
4. Mobbed by Belgrade war veterans, most of them Catholics.
5. Personally rebuked by their big boss, Joseph Stalin.
FAR AND MIDDLE EAST
54. Reporting on China, General George C. Marshall bluntly placed the blame for her failure to achieve unity on:
1. The Kuomintang. 4. China's minor parties.
2. The Communists. 5. Russian agents.
3. Extremists in both factions.
55. Haganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi are two of the :
1. Jewish resistance groups which continue to oper ate in Palestine.
2. Important native leaders in the Indian Congress.
3. New Iranian political parties.
4. Russian-backed dictators in the Balkans.
5. Underground newspapers still being distributed by Nazi elements in the Middle East.
LATIN AMERICA
56. Still working to break the stalemate in U.S.-Argentine relations is the U.S. Ambassador to .Argentina:
1. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. 4. John G. Winant.
2. Carlton J. H. Hayes. 5. Norman Armour.
3. George S. Messersmith.
57. And new evidence that a rising tide of Leftism is sweeping Latin America came this winter when Communists south of the Rio Grande did all but one of these:
1. Doubled their vote in Uruguay's recent election.
2. Kept a tight grip on the trade union movement in Mexico, held most of the important posts in the Cuban Confederation of Labor.
S. Overthrew the Liberal Government of President Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, returned ex-President Getulio Vargas to power.
4. Polled 16% of the total vote (at least 800,000 ballots) in Brazil's nationwide election.
5. Won three Cabinet posts in Chile.
AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE NEWS
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. 58. Here Keitel, Von Ribbentrop, Frank were hanged and Goring crunched potassium cyanide.
59. Nelson Rockefeller seeks to increase this country's production--and thus her ability to buy U.S. products.
60. A new nation was born here in November; within two years it will be a sovereign power under Wilhelmina.
61. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk charged that police imprisoned 104 non-Communist candidates, murdered 24 others shortly before the national election here.
62. U Aung San led a delegation to London to discuss the British Government's offer to grant self-government to this country.
63. Here France battles the Viet Nam Republic.
64. U.S. will let U.N. rule in this area if we can keep air and navy bases.
65. Where Communists and M.R.P. vied for victory.
66. Where U.S. airmen are reported to be enslaved.
67. Here many Socialists under Pietro Nenni chose to cooperate with the Communists.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
68. This winter the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology went to Professor Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University, leading authority on:
1. Brain surgery. 4. Prostheses (artificial limbs).
2. Gland transfusion. 5. Radiation-induced mutations.
3. Heart disease.
69. But conspicuously absent among other scientists honored with Nobel Awards were any connected with:
1. Chemistry. 4. The atom bomb.
2. Physics. 5. Virus research.
3. Reproduction and other biological changes.
70. What might be the end of one of the most expensive searches in medical history came when two Stanford University scientists isolated the virus that causes:
/. Arthritis. 4. Spinal meningitis.
2. The common cold. 5. Typhus.
3. Infantile paralysis.
71. U.S. doctors finally decided to vaccinate 100,000 people with BCG to try to immunize them against:
1. Cancer. 3. Malaria. 5. Venereal diseases.
2. Pneumonia. 4. Tuberculosis. 72. The pick and shovel corps of science has recently discovered all but one of these:
1. Boats of the ancient Britons about 400 years older than Julius Caesar.
2. Carved runes at Montpelier, Vt., which seem to prove that Lief Ericson was the first European to visit America.
3. A city in Palestine (possibly Tirzah of Biblical fame) which was inhabited in 4,000 B.C.
4. A 3,000-year-old city in Russian Azerbaijan whose inhabitants were well over six feet tall.
5. The second largest royal tomb ever found in Egypt.
73. Exhausted oil pools may yield a "second crop" thanks to experiments of Dr. Claude E. ZoBell, who would:
1. First condense the oil, then collect it by means of static electricity.
2. Flood the wells with ZoBelline, a gas which drives out the oil.
3. Force air under pressure through worked-out strata.
4. Infect oilsands with a deep sea bacteria.
5. Suck out the oil with a powerful new syphon he has invented.
74. The Mark II, developed at Cambridge, Mass., for the U.S. Navy is:
1. A giant calculating machine.
2. An improved application of radar for submarine detection.
3. Newest and fastest of the jet-propelled planes.
4. A revolutionary seagoing tank.
5. A rocket bomb bigger and faster than the Nazi V2.
75. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics recently revealed that it may have to split up its Buck Rogers testing center because:
1. It cannot provide housing for its technicians.
2. Its noise unnerves people.
3. No one place has enough power to run its motors.
4. Secrecy (says the F.B.I.) can be maintained only by decentralizing it.
5. The Army & Navy each wants a part of it.
76. And many airmen fear that "compressibility" (vibrations set up by "standing sound waves") may make it impossible for planes to travel in the range of:
1. 150-300 m.p.h. 4. 500-650 m.p.h.
2. 300-400 m.p.h. 5. 650-900 m.p.h.
3. 400-500 m.p.h.
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
77. Biographies of the winter included all but one of these:
1. Balzac--Stefan Zweig.
2. Brandeis--Alpheus Thomas Mason.
3. H. G. Wells--Emil Ludwig.
4. Raffles of Singapore--Emily Hahn.
5. The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds--Ferris Greenslet.
78. And another in the long line of appraisals of F.D.R.
(The Roosevelt I Knew) was written by:
1. Eleanor Roosevelt. 4. Henry Wallace.
2. Frances Perkins. 5. Winston Churchill.
3. Harry Hopkins;
79. Arthur Derounian, author of Under Cover, took another crack at U.S. extremists in his new book, The Plotters, written under his pen name of:
1. "John Roy Carlson." 4. "Jan Valtin."
2. "Franklin Carter." 5. "Ethel Vance."
3. "Carter Dickson."
80. In Thieves in the Night, hard-hitting Arthur Koestler tackled the subject of:
1. A Latin American country and its dictator.
2. Germany under Hitler.
3. Palestine and the Jews who claim it as home.
4. The colonization of South Africa.
5. The U.S. under the Harding administration.
81. Kenneth Roberts wrote a new historical novel whose leading character is called:
1. Holdfast Gaines. 3. Mr. Adam. 5. Mr. Roberts.
2. Lydia Bailey. 4. Mr. Blandings.
82. And Pulitzer Prize Novelist John P. Marquand produced a new novel that differs from his other best-sellers in that it:
1. Abandons his usual well-bred irony.
2. Comes to grips with the problem of race relations.
3. Has a woman for its principal character.
4. Is a historical novel set in Scotland in the days of the Stuarts.
5. Takes place on the West Coast rather than New York or Washington. 83. A major event in the theater was Eugene O'Neill's new play, The Iceman Cometh, whose message is that:
1. Every man's fate is bound up with that of mankind as a whole.
2. The evil men do results only in good.
3. Man cannot go on living without illusions.
4. Only through sacrifice can one achieve happiness.
5. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
84. And well-received by the critics was Joan of Lorraine, which brought to> Broadway the combined talents of:
1. Frances Farmer and Noel Coward.
2. Helen Hayes and Ben Hecht.
3. Ingrid Bergman and Maxwell Anderson.
4. Joan Crawford and William Saroyan.
5. Katharine Cornell and Shakespeare.
85. Perhaps with an eye on Porgy and Bess, Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes wrote music and lyrics for the Elmer Rice play:
1. Counsellor--at-Law. 4. On Trial.
2. Judgment Day. 5. Street Scene.
3. The Left Bank.
86. After glancing over 1946's crop of movies, Manhattan critics announced lists of "ten best" significant for the large number of:
1. Film biographies. 3. Movies about horseracing.
2. Foreign-made films. 4. "Whodunits."
5. Pictures made from famous short stories.
87. With a script by Robert E. Sherwood and able direction by William Wyler, the movies told a powerful story of soldiers' readjustment to civilian life in:
1. Happy Birthday. 2. Home Again Train.
3. Over Here.
4. The Best Years of Our Lives.
5. Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise).
88. Walt Disney combined cartooning and live action in Song-af the South, a Technicolored version of:
1. George Washington Cable's Creole stories.
2. Octavus Roy Cohen's "Florian Slappey" stories.
3. Roark Bradford's "John Henry" stories.
4. The "Little Colonel" stories.
5. The "Uncle Remus" stories.
89. M-G-M released a dazzling Technicolored version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize novel:
1. Back Street. 4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
2. The Egg and I. 5. The Yearling.
3. Humoresque.
90. Two other "Current & Choice" movies, Stairway to Heaven and It's a Wonderful Life, are alike in that they:
1. Contain sequences of fantasy.
2. Give Ingrid Bergman a chance to play comedy.
3. Star Actor James Stewart in a triumphant Hollywood homecoming.
4. Use a novel new film technique in which the camera puts the spectator in the leading character's shoes.
5. Were written, produced and directed by versatile Preston Sturges.
91. U.S. art event of the year was Pittsburgh's 50th annual Carnegie awards in which first prize went to Karl Knaths's painting:
1. Don Quixote No. 1. 2. Gear. 3. Pink Tights.
4. Place of Darkness. 5. Welcome Home.
92. One of the most heralded visitors of the U.S. music season was the tenor whom John McCormack picked as "most likely to succeed" him:
1. Christopher Lynch. 4. Jussi Bjoerling.
2. Nino Martini. 5. Richard Crooks.
3. Giovanni Martinelli,
93. Queen of the Metropolitan Opera as it opened its 62nd season was heroic-voiced, heroic-sized:
1. Kirsten Flagstad. 4. Bidu Sayao.
2. Helen Jepson. 5. Helen Traubel.
3. Lotte Lehmann.
94. Michael Levin, editor of Down Beat, called it "the most exciting musical unit in the U.S. today" when he discovered:
1. Hoagy Carmichael and his piano.
2. "Hot Lips" Page and his trumpet.
3. John Kirby and his orchestra.
4. Spike Jones and his "City Slickers."
5. The Joe Mooney Quartet.
95. And "No doubt about it--this is the greatest American symphony" said Serge Koussevitsky after he had conducted the world premiere of:
1. John Alden Carpenter's Sermons in Stone.
2. Aaron Copland's Third Symphony.
3. Harl MacDonald's Rhumba Symphony.
4. John Powell's Symphony in A.
5. William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony.
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. Asked U.N. to incorporate South-West Africa into the Union of South Africa,
2. Bowed out as a performer after 42 years of dancing.
3. Famed Briton who visited Moscow "to establish friendly contact with the Soviet Army."
4. Gangster who died recently at his Florida estate.
5. G.O.P. leaders seek to bar him from his Senate seat.
6. He took over from Byrnes as U.S. Secretary of State.
7. Heads new expedition to Antarctica.
8. Internationally famous singer killed in air crash.
9. Mexico's 58th President.
10. The National Board of Review, New York City's newspaper critics and many other film reviewers picked him as best movie actor of the year.
11. Named to make a food survey of Germany.
12. New U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
13. Up from G.O.P. minority leader to Speaker of the House.
14. Victim of $80,000 cat burglary.
15. Visitor from Italy who sought U.S. food and dollars for his impoverished people.
Cut along dotted lines to get four individual answer sheets
Answer Sheet Score
0. . . 3 . . 27 . . . . . INTER- U.S. NATIONAL AFFAIRS 28 . . . . . . . 29 . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . 30 . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . 31 . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . 32 . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . 33 . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . 34 . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . 35 . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . 36 . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . 37 . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . 38 . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . 39 . . . . . . . 11 . . . . . 40 . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . 41 . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . 42 . . . . . . 14 . . . . . 43 . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . 44 . . . . . . . 16 . . . . . FOREIGN 17 . . . . . NEWS 18 . . . . . 45 . . . . . . . 19 . . . . . 46 . . . . . . . 20 . . . . . 47 . . . . . . . 21 . . . . . 48 . . . . . . . 22 . . . . . 49 . . . . . . . 23 . . . . . 50 . . . . . . . 24 . . . . . 51 . . . . . . . 25 . . . . . 52 . . . . . . . 26 . . . . . OVER
KEY TO CORRECT ANSWERS
Numeral printed in italics are correct answers to the 105 questions in the 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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