Monday, Feb. 21, 1938
94. During the second half of 1937 U. S. commodity prices (1 remained stable, 2 continued their inflationary rise, 3 fell sharply from the spring peak, 4 rose on farm products but declined on metals, 5 were forced down by the Government).
95. Among the major evidences of the current business recession is the reduction of steel operations from the year's high of 92.3% of capacity to (1 eighty, 2 seventy-two, 3 fifty, 4 thirty-eight, 5 nineteen) percent of capacity.
LITERATURE & THE ARTS
96. Walt Disney's first feature-length animated cartoon is (1 Brother Roy, 2 Charlie McCarthy, 3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 4 Jack the Giant Killer, 5 Mary and Her Snow-White Lamb).
97. The version of Julius Caesar staged during the current season on Broadway under the direction of 22-year-old Orson Welles, is noted for (1 the acting of Walter Hampden, 2 the faithful reproduction of Shakespearian costumes, 3 the fact that Julius Caesar is presented to New York audiences for the first time in ten years, 4 modern, up-to-date dress and interpretation, 5 its accurate use of Shakespearian English).
98. The noted Finnish composer whose Origin of Fire, played in the U. S. for the first time early in 1938 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is (1 Werner Janssen, 2 Robert Kajanus, 3 Richard Strauss, 4 Jean Sibelius, 5 Eugene Ormandy).
99. 1937 Nobel Prize for literature went to the writer of The Thibaults (1 Mari Sandoz, 2 Romain Rolland, 3 Marcel Proust, 4 Sinclair Lewis, 5 Roger Martin du Card).
100. To Have and Have Not--Ernest Hemingway, is a story of (1 the Spanish Civil War, 2 the career of a Key West, Florida, character named Harry Morgan, 3 the Italian retreat from Caporetto, 4 the rise of the Communist party in this country under Earl Browder, 5 a fictional Hollywood character whose career closely resembles that of Sam Goldwyn).
101. The Arts--the story of painting, sculpture, architecture and music--from the days of the caveman until the present time--was written by (1 J. B. Neumann, 2 Pablo Picasso, 3 Hendrik Willem van Loon, 4 Emil Ludwig, 5 Thomas Mann).
102. With an offer of $4,000 per broadcast RCA brought out of retirement the 70-year-old former conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, (1 Leopold Stokowski, 2 Galliano Masini, 3 Jose Iturbi, 4 Arturo Toscanini, 5 Walter Damrosch).
103. The greatest architect of the 20th Century whose genius was hailed in foreign countries long before it was recognized in the United States, the forerunner of the international style, the designer of the Tokyo Hotel, of homes, offices and industrial plants scattered throughout the country is (1 Louis Sullivan, 2 Frank Lloyd Wright, 3 Richard J. Neutra, 4 Grant Wood, 5 Georges Enesco).
104. Maurice Ravel, who died early in 1938, was best known to Americans for his composition (1 Rhapsody in Blue, 2 Firefly, 3 By the Waters of Minnetunka, 4 Bolero, 5 Valencia).
105. One of the best motion pictures of 1937 starred Paul Muni in (1 Wells Fargo, 2 Night Must Fall, 3 The Life of Emile Zola, 4 Tovarich, 5 Conquest).
KEY TO CORRECT ANSWERS The numerals printed in italics below are the correct answers to the 105 questions in the current affairs test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract the number of X's 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 above the college average. Do not look at these answers until you have finished your answer sheet.
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