Current affairs Test
Prepared by ALVIN C. EURICH. Stanford University and ELMO C. WILSON. University of Minnesota Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education (Copyright, 1940, by Time Inc.
EXPLANATION This test is reprinted in TIME to enable TIME readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs by the same test that was used in hundreds of schools at the end of last term. Additional copies are available for group programs , on request to TIMES's Chicago office, 330 East 22nd Street.
In recording answers, do not make any marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answers sheets printed alongside of test. In all, answers sheets for four persons are provided.
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DIRECTIONS For each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answers sheet.
Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover).
Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since the number of this question is 0, the number 2—standing for Roosevelt—has been placed at the right of the 0 on the answer sheet.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
1. Soon after the war broke our President Roosevelt called Congress in special session to:
1.Up taxes to meet the expected 940 deficit.
2. Give him wider powers in time of war.
3. Revise neutrality legislation.
4. Raise the limit set by law to the U. S. public debt.
5. Ratify measures adopted ty the Pan-American conference at Panama.
2. Principal Washington sideshow last fall was:
1. The Dies investigation of un-American activities.
2. The La Follette probe of restrictions on civil liberties.
3. John L. Lewis' attempts to win peach with the A. F. of L.
4. The Republican minority making a monkey out of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
5. A movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" shown to Senators in the Senate Chamber itself.
3. Congress has now relaxed restrictions on exports to belligerents, but has imposed stringent new war-time restrictons on:
1. U. S. Shipping.
2. Freedom of speech. 4. Labor Unions.
3. Freedom of the Press. 5. Imports.
4.As Congress opened in January, Republicans and Conservatives Democrats began gunning for Secretary Hull's pet project:
1. Freedom for the Philippines.
2. Reciprocal trade pact program.
3. Annexation of Mexican over the oil seizure.
4. Immediate repeal of all U. S. tariffs.
5. All assistance short of war to England and France.
5. During the first few weeks of tis regular session, the outstanding feature of Congress was the:
1. Strength of the economy bloc.
2. President's strong leadership.
3. Agreement among members that new taxes are necessary.
4. Complete indifference toward domestic problems as members wrangled over U. S. foreign policy.
5. House filibuster against Gavagan Anti-lynching bill.
6. Dean of Senate, until his death in January, was Idaho's:
1. Carter Glass.
2. Hiram Johnson. 4. George Norris.
3. William Edgar Borah. 5. Henrik Shipstead.
7. Outstanding Democrat who has announced his candidacy for 1940 regardless of whether Mr. Roosevelt decides to run is:
1. Paul V. McNutt.
2. Senator Vandenburg. 4. Thomas E. Dewey.
3. John Nance Garner. 5. Jim Farley.
8. On Election Day two old age pension schemes known as "Ham and Eggs" and the "Bigelow Plan" were turned down by voters in: 1. Michigan and Minnesota.
2. California and Ohio. 4. Ohio and Oregon.
3. California and Florida. 5. Montana and Colorado.
9. In his second radio speech on U. S. foreign policy Col. Lindbergh aroused bitter criticism by:
1. Calling on the U. S. to stand by the democracies.
2. Suggesting seizure of British-owned islands in West Indies as security for Britain's war debt to U. S.
3. Intimating the U. S. should demand that Canada break her ties with the British empire.
4. Announcing that the German air fleet was superior to combined fleets of U. S., Britain, and France.
5. Urging a two-ocean fleet.
10. Russia, in picking on Finland, roused the ire of millions of Americans, most of whom know Finland only as the nation:
1. Of the Revolutionary War hero, Kosciusco.
2. Which produces our Edam Cheese.
3. Whose government, under Thomas Masaryck, sat in Pittsburgh during World War I.
4. Which pays its debts.
5. Whence comes our Finn 'n Haddie.
11. Many Protestant churchmen were up in arms when President Roosevelt appointed as his "peace" ambassador to the Vatican:
1. Benjamin Fairless.
2. Ernest T. Weir. 4.
3. Myron C. Taylor. 5.
12. Latest change in the Social Security Act was an amendment which:
1. Extends unemployment insurance to salesmen and casual workers.
2. Permits payment of old-age benefits in 1940 in stead of 1942.
3. Reduces the age requirement for annuities from 65 to 60.
4. Freezes old-age payroll tax at 4% through 1942.
5. Makes it mandatory that every working person in the U. S. have a Social Security number.
13. Governor Bricker replied with strong criticism of WPA when President Roosevelt rebuked Ohio for: 1. Voting down the old-age pension scheme.
2. Not supporting New Deal policies.
3. Ducking responsibility for relief.
4. Cincinnati's failure to win the World's Series.
5. Closing all schools in the State for two weeks.
14. On October 24 the minimum hourly wage for interstate industry became:
1. Eighteen cents.
2. Twenty-five cents.
3. Thirty cents.
4. Forty cents. 5. Fifty cents.
5. Fifty cents.
15. Father Coughlin first disavowed, later praised the organization from which a group of members were recently arrested by the F. B. I. for plotting a U. S. Dictatorship:
1. Christian Front.
2. Defenders of the Faith.
3. Nazis of America. American.
4. American League for Peace and Autocracy
5. American Catholic Union
16. Most unusual target of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold's anti-trust prosecution is:
1. The Communist Party and affiliated organizations.
2. Labor Unions in the building trades.
3. Commercial enterprises of two State governments.
4. Tammany Hall.
5. Mayor Hague's political machine in Jersey City.
17. Mr. Roosevelt's newest Supreme Court appointee is:
1. William O. Douglas.
2. Pierce Butler.
3. Frank Murphy.
4. John L. Lewis.
5. James M. Landis.
18. Robert H. Jackson, the new Attorney General, is best known for his part in the drive to :
1. End political corruption in Kansas City, Chicago.
2. Break up monopolies and price-fixing as one big reason for the depression.
3. Pack the Supreme Court with New Dealers.
4. Get more big business men into the New Deal.
5. "Spend and spend, elect and elect."
19. The U. S. Debt on January 1, 1940, was within $3,057,543,992 of the statutory limit of:
1. $22,000,000,000.
2. $35,000,000,000.
3. $45,000,000,000.
4. $70,000,000,000.
5. $10,000,000,000.
20. In his budget message Pres. Roosevelt told Congress that:
1. The war boom has balanced the budget at last.
2. The budget can never be balanced for fear of a new deflation.
3. Taxes must be upped at least $460,000,000, if the deficit is to be held to $1,716,000,000.
4. Increased military and naval bills can be paid only by cutting down on relief.
5. He did not think new taxes would be wise in an election year.
THE WORLD AT WAR
21. On August 21 the balance of power in Europe was dramatically upset by word that:
1. Poland had made an alliance with France against Germany.
2. Mussolini had backed out of the Rome-Berlin axis.
3. Hitler and Stalin would sign non-aggression pact.
4. President Roosevelt would send a new A.E.F. to fight for England and France.
5. Litvinoff had resigned as Russia's Foreign Commissar.
22. In the confusion that followed, Hitler redoubled his pressure on Poland to:
1. Start persecuting the Polish Jews.
2. Let Germany take back Danzig and the Corridor.
3. Join Germany in seizing the Rumanian oil fields.
4. Help Germany take the Ukraine from Russia.
5. Become part of the greater Reich.
23. Poland refused, confident of holding off a German invasion until rain and snow came to the rescue because:
1. Poland had an unbroken line of forts along the entire frontier.
2. Russia had promised to help defend Poland against Germany.
3. Poland had one of Europe's four biggest armies.
4. Poland's air force was reputed the finest in Europe.
5. England had promised to send navy into Baltic.
24. Hitler ordered the attack, and within three weeks Germany had won the war in Poland by:
1. Starving the Poles into surrender.
2. Terrific artillery fire which destroyed much of the Polish armies.
3. Using airplanes and flying columns of motorized troops to strike far behind the Polish lines.
4. Organizing a Nazi revolt in Poland.
5. Same tactics used to conquer Poland in 1915.
25. Polish resistance ended when:
1. The Pope told them further fighting was useless.
2. England and France refused to live up to alliance.
3. Russia attacked from the East, and Hitler and Stalin carved up the country.
4. Rumania and Hungary joined in the attack.
5. Germany offered easy terms for surrender.
26. Taking advantage of war fears, Russia now turned to reasserting authority over her former territories in:
1. Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia, Finland.
2. Bessarabia, Vilna, Finland, and the Ukraine.
3. Rumania, Lithuania, Slovakia, Finland.
4. Finland, Harolia, Bulgaria, Latvia.
5. Vilna, Finland, Lithuania, the Crimea.
27. Russia's principal demands, which the Finns refused to grant, were for:
1. A share in the Petsamo oil deposits.
2. A naval base in Finland, a couple of islands, and revision of the Karelian frontier.
3. Salla, Turku, Viborg, and the Aaland Islands.
4. A narrow strip of land across northern Finland to connect Russia with Sweden.
5. Access to the Gulf of Finland.
28. The war started without warning when the Russians bombed the Finnish capital:
1. Warsaw. 3. Helsinki.
2. Moscow.
3. Helsinki.
4. Petsamo
5. Laatokka.
29. Within six weeks, the Finnish war had upset the European balance of power again by:
1. Revealing the military inefficiency of Russia.
2. Lining up Sweden and Norway actively on the side of England and France.
3. Making Japan sign a mutual assistance treaty with Russia.
4. Causing the Baltic states to renounce their non-aggression pacts with the Soviets.
5. Turning Germany against Russia, its former ally.
30. First material assistance given the Finns in the early days of the war with Russia were the eighty bombers, sent by:
1. Sweden.
2. Italy.
3. The U. S.
4. France.
5. Rumania.
31. Meanwhile Britain and France waged war against Germany, and Britain hastily reorganized her Government to include two important new members:
1. Ramsay MacDonald and Neville Chamberlain.
2. The Duke of Windsor and Stanley Baldwin.
3. Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden.
4. Malcolm MacDonald and Winston Churchill.
5. Ambassador Kennedy and Anthony Eden.
32. First startling split in England's War Cabinet came in December with the dramatic resignation of:
1. Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha.
2. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound.
3. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.
4. Foreign Minister Viscount Halifax.
5. Secretary for the Dominions Sir Anthony Eden.
33. To strengthen their diplomatic front Britain and France signed a pact with Turkey, the terms of which specifically exempted Turkey from:
1. Fighting any but a naval war.
2. Entering a war already under way when the pact was signed.
3. Warring against Russia.
4. Fighting outside the Balkans and Near East.
5. Warring against Italy.
34. Early in February world attention was turned to Asia-Minor by:
1. A challenge hurled at the army in the Japanese Diet.
2. Viscount Gort's good-will flight in Ankara.
3. Large concentrations of Allied Troops in Egypt and Syria.
4. A lightning drive by Russia to seize Bessarabia.
5. A book on Iran called "The 40 Days of Musa Dagh."
35. To present the most powerful front possible against Germany, Britain and France have done all but one of the following:
1. Abandoned all tariffs against each other's products.
2. Pooled their monetary resources for the duration of the war.
3. Brought their armed forces under a common command.
4. Scheduled a series of conferences on labor problems of the two countries.
5. Agreed to cooperate in obtaining munitions and raw materials.
26. In World War I, the French lost nearly 700,000 men to defend Verdun. In the first five months of World War II the list of French dead was:
1. 500,000. 3. 200,000.
2. 65,000.
3. 200,000.
4. 100,000.
5. Less than 15,000.
37. Siegfried and Maginot are German and French:
1. Army leaders.
2. Front-line villages.
3. Super-battleships.
4. Cheap, mass-produced fighting planes.
5. Fortifications on the Western Front.
38. Most destructive weapon used against Britain by Germany in the first four months of the war was the:
1. Blockade.
2. Bombing plane.
3. Battleship.
4. "Mosquito fleet."
5. Mine.
39. Greatest change in London family life brought about by World War II is the:
1. Conscription of all youths seventeen and over.
2. Compulsory war work outlined for women.
3. Closing of all movie theatres.
4. Sharp decline in marriages.
5. Evacuation of thousands of children to country.
40. A hero of World War II is Gunther Prien who:
1. Brought a Polish submarine safely through the German blockade to join British forces.
2. Led the British air squadron which destroyed the Nazi base at Helgoland.
3. Captained the Admiral Graf Spee.
4. Commanded the submarine which sank the British warship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow.
5. Leads guerrilla troops still fighting in Poland.
41. In the first five months of the war, England and France seemed to place their main hope of victory in:
1. Getting Italy to come in on their side.
2. A plan to invade Germany through Holland.
3. The likelihood that Stalin would turn and attack Germany.
4. Their great superiority in the air.
5. The blockade to starve Germany out.
42. Germany's famed pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spec: 1. Was sunk by British bombers in the Skagerrak.
2. Was outfought and defeated by three small British warships.
3. Sank the British aircraft carrier Courageous.
4. Proved she could defeat any Allied warship that could catch her.
5. Ran a gauntlet of Allied warships from Murmansk to Hamburg.
43. As a "measure of justified reprisal against Germany's war methods," Great Britain announced late in Novem ber that:
1. All German exports would be seized.
2. Neutral nations on the Baltic would soon be asked to admit "protective" British and French forces.
3. German prisoners would be forced to ride on Brit ish warships.
4. German U-boats would be sunk without warning.
FOREIGN NEWS
56. Late in December an earthquake caused the death of more than 20,000 people in:
1. Japan. 3. Italy. 5. Turkey.
2. California.
3. Italy.
4. Lisbon.
5. Turkey
57. Rumanian Iron Guardists (Nazis) were publicly executed in the streets of Bucharest after they:
1. Threw elderly vegetables at King Carol.
2. Burned the Parliament" building.
3. Assassinated the Prime Minister.
4. Wired Hitler to send German troops to help them overthrow the government.
5. Painted swastikas on the city's war memorial.
58. Balkan nation which Russia is rumored to be egging on to regain the territory of Dobruja from Rumania is:
7. Turkey.
2. Esthonia.
3. Bulgaria.
4. Hungary.
5. Yugoslavia.
59. By vote of League powers early in December Russia:
1. Was penalized by sanctions identical with those used against Italy in the Italo-Ethiopian War.
2. Was given until March 1 to withdraw from Finland, after which an embargo will go into effect.
3. Became first nation ever expelled from the League.
4. Became fourth nation expelled from the League.
5. Was formally notified that unless Soviet troops withdrew from Finland, a League army would be sent to the Finns' aid.
6. Neutral ships carrying contraband to Germany would be sunk without warning.
44. Weakened by the long campaign in China, Japan con centrated during the fall and early winter on:
1. The siege of Shanghai.
2. Promoting a puppet Chinese government under Former Premier Wang Ching-wei.
3. Goading Manchukuo into war on her side.
4. Renewing the expired alliance with Britain.
5. Forcing Emperor Henry Pu-yi to surrender.
45. Japan's position was made considerably more precarious when the United States on January 26:
1. Imposed an arms embargo.
2. Severed diplomatic relations.
3. Lent China another $100,000,000.
4. Terminated a 28-year-old Commercial Treaty.
5. Sent its Pacific fleet to cooperate with Britain's in the China Seas.
THE THEATRE OF WAR
Directions: The following statements identify scenes of important recent war developments in Europe. On the answer sheet, opposite the number of each statement below, write the number on the map which correctly locates the place or territory described.
46. Bessarabian Territory which Russia hopes to regain.
47. Where Germans scuttled their own navy after World War I, sank a British battleship in World War II.
48. City which Russia first seized and then gave away to another country.
49. Country using flood waters for defense.
50. Scene of bombing which almost got Hitler.
51. City over which World War II started.
52. Helgoland.
53. City where Nazi officials executed nine students and closed all universities.
54. Mannerheim Line.
55. Where both City of Flint and Bremen were temporarily held.
60. To make the new Russian military and naval domination more palatable to Lithuanians, the Soviet government:
1. Specifically exempted them from Russian military service.
2. Lent their government 50,000,000 rubles.
3. Promised not to persecute the Jews.
4. Removed all tariff barriers between the two nations.
5. Ceded to them their ancient capital of Vilno, recently taken from Poland.
61. Cuba's Chief of Army Staff, Fulgencio Batista, resigned :
1. To run for President.
2. To run for the coast.
3. Because of pressure from the U. S. State Department.
4. During an island-wide scandal connecting him with a great sugar swindle.
5. To become Ambassador to the U. S.
62. Italy's attitude toward Russia since the Russo-German. pact may be gauged by:
1. II Duce's speech before the Fascist Grand Council declaring he misjudged the Soviets.
2. The negotiations for a similar Italo-Russian pact,
3. Mussolini's now famous wisecrack about welcoming Brother Stalin to the anti-Communist front.
4. Press articles violently critical of Russia.
5. Mussolini's broad hints that the pact ended the Rome-Berlin axis.
63. Three hours after it convened in January Canadian Parliament was dissolved and elections ordered because:
1. The Labor Party demanded that the Dominion withdraw from the Empire and join the U. S.
2. No party had a majority.
3. Premier MacKenzie King died.
4. Nova Scotia requested independence.
5. Government wanted its war policies vindicated.
64. Twenty-one American republics at the Panama conference adopted the startling proposal to:
1. Use all means "short of war" to aid the European democracies.
2. Extend territorial waters 300 to 500 miles off shore to be policed by American navies and air fleets.
3. Close the Panama Canal to belligerent warships.
4. Abolish all tariffs between nations in this hemisphere over a five-year period.
5. Establish a League of American nations.
65. Pope Pius' visit to King Victor Emmanuel late in December was significant because:
1. The Italian monarch agreed that the Rome-Berlin axis should be dissolved.
2. It was the first visit by a Pope to any ruler of modern Italy.
3. It marked the first time a Pope has left the Vatican since 1870.
4. It was an indication that Mussolini was slipping.
5. It was the Vatican's first official recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia.
THE TREND OF EVENTS
66. Biggest U. S. amateur sport trend in the last three years has been toward:
1. Parlor games.
2. Aquatic sports.
3. Court games.
4. Winter sports.
5. Team games.
67. During the past four years the motion picture stars which were biggest box-office attractions have consistently been:
1. Animals.
2. Children.
3. Foreigners
4. Blondes.
5. Character-actors.
68. During 1939 the New Deal tended to:
1. Become more radical and experimental than ever.
2. Ally itself with old-age pension schemes.
3. Become a convenient refuge for Communists.
4. Grow more conservative, promote little or no reform legislation.
5. Ally itself with prominent big business leaders.
69. Effect of the war on the political situation in the U. S. has been:
1. A sharp rise in Mr. Roosevelt's popularity.
2. A sharp drop in Mr. Roosevelt's popularity.
3. A truce between Republicans and Democrats.
4. A boom in Republican prospects for 1940.
5. Popular move to draft Mr. Hoover for President.
70. Looking toward 1940, U. S. resorts and travel facilities are anticipating:
1. Their worst year in history.
2. Their biggest year in history.
3. About the same amount of business as in 1938.
4. A slower year than 1938.
5. A year of unprecedentedly bad weather.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE
71. When war came on September 1, the New York Stock Market:
1. Was thrown into a panic.
2. Moved higher but did not keep pace with the rise in industrial production.
3. Was closed.
4. Soared and outran production.
5. Asked Mr. Roosevelt for help.
72. If on September 1 you had bought the following five commodities your biggest profit by the end of the year would have been in:
1. Wheat.
2. Sugar.
3. Cotton.
4. Steel scrap.
5. Copper.
73. In contrast with World War I, British and French purchases here since the war began have been:
1. Disappointingly small.
2. Beyond expectations.
3. Financed by U.S. loans.
4.Placed through J. P. Morgan & Co.
5. Intercepted at sea by Germany
74. The U. S. industry boosted most spectacularly by the war is:
1. Small arms.
2. Textiles.
3. Aircraft.
4. Ship building.
5. Agriculture.
75. Although unemployment in late November was still around the nine million mark, there was:
1. An epidemic of strikes.
2. A sharp rise in the wage level.
3. A strong sentiment to let down on immigration restrictions.
4. A serious skilled labor shortage in key industries.
5. A shortage of agricultural labor.
76. In November, Du Pont went into quantity production on Nylon, the new artificial silk for stockings which may cut in half our imports from:
1. China.
2. Sicily.
3. Japan.
4. France.
5. Sumatra.
77. Compared with 1938, last year's cash farm income was:
1. Much less.
2. Slightly less.
3. The same.
4. A little more.
5. Up 50%.
78. As compared with close of 1938, stock market prices (Dow-Jones Industrial Average) at close of 1939 were:
1. Slightly lower.
2. Much lower.
3. Slightly higher.
4. Much higher.
5. Exactly the same.
SCIENCE
79. Frozen sleep and injections of filtrate of mouse tissue plus a high vitamin diet are two encouraging new treatments for:
1. Scarlet fever.
2. Typhoid.
3. Cancer.
4. Yaws.
5. Cholera.
80. In 1939 U. S. airlines set a new high of 733,000,000 passenger miles with:
1. No passenger fatalities all year.
2. More passenger fatalities than ever before.
3. An average safety record.
4. Nearly four times as good a safety record as best previous year.
5. A worse record than the Russians and the Dutch.
81. Two new weapons in the war against infantile paralysis, as indicated by recent experiments on monkeys, may be:
1. Electrical stimulation and glucose injections.
2. Paraldehyde and sulfanilamide.
3. Testosterone propionate and hydroxyethylapocupreine.
4. Cobra venom and chloride injections.
5. Vitamin C and the female sex hormone oestrogen.
82. 200,000,000 electron-volts of atomic energy were released when:
1. The Carnegie Institution split an atom of uranium.
2. Booneville Dam generators began to hum.
3. Man-made lightning was made at World's Fair.
4. A meteorite exploded over New Mexico.
5. An earthquake destroyed Erzincan.
83. Newly discovered is the fact that sex hormones may be easily and cheaply derived from the lowly:
1. Mushroom.
2. Rattlesnake oil.
3. Dandelion.
4. Sarsaparilla root.
5. Oyster.
84. When Rear Admiral Byrd left for his third trip to Antarctica he took with him Armour Institute's $150,000:
1. Ice-ramming submarine.
2. Helium filled dirigible.
3. Giant automotive snow cruiser.
4. Compass unaffected by magnetic poles.
5. Electrically-heated clothes.
85. Surgeon General Parran reports smallpox on the increase in the U. S. and now more prevalent here than in any country except India due to:
1. Increasing rubber importation from Far East.
2. Conditions among California migratory workers.
3. Negroes going barefoot in the South.
4. Carelessness about getting vaccinated.
5. Increased cowpox among cattle.
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
86. Mayor Hartsfield requested Atlantans not to tear the crinolines and fawn vests off visiting screen celebrities at the premiere of:
1. "I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang."
2. "Four Wives."
3. "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
4. "Gone With the Wind."
5. "Atlanta to the Sea."
87. New York's Museum of Modern Art is currently jammed with visitors to its exhibition of:
1. Irish ceramics.
2. Cubes used by original cubists.
3. Salon photographs.
4. Paintings by blind artists.
5. Old Italian masterpieces.
88. Chief character in George S. Kaufman's new smash-hit, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" was modeled after his friend:
1. Alexander Woollcott.
2. John Nance Garner.
3. Robert Benchley.
4. W. C. Fields.
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones.
89. Cleo the Goldfish and Figaro the Cat are characters in Walt Disney's newest animated feature:
1. "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe."
2. "Alice in Wonderland."
3. "Pinocchio."
4. "Little Red Riding Hood."
5. "Robinson Crusoe."
90. Statesmen of The Lost Cause, by Pulitzer Prize Biographer Burton J. Hendrick, is a study of:
1. The "Munich" appeasement policy.
2. The Confederate Cabinet.
3. Czechoslovakia's last year.
4. Poland since Pilsudski.
5. The original New Deal Brain Trust.
91. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years was written during eleven years of great labor by:
1. Robert Todd Lincoln.
2. Carl Sandburg.
3. Charles A. Beard.
4. Ida M. Tarbell.
5. Robert S. Lynd.
92. A new star of 1939, Dorothy Maynor is hailed by critics as one of America's finest:
1. Motion picture actresses.
2. Swing artists.
3. Sopranos.
4. Novelists.
5. Negro poets.
93. Verdun is the eighth and latest volume of Men of Good Will by:
1. Thomas Mann.
2. William Faulkner.
3. John Steinbeck.
4. Marcel Proust.
5. Jules Remains.
94. The Federal Theatre Project:
1. Is the first New Deal relief project to be made completely selfsupporting.
2. Was boycotted recently by the American Federation of Actors.
3. Produced a smash hit this season in "The American Way."
4. Was terminated by act of Congress.
5. Is being greatly expanded.
95. A new favorite with U. S. radio audiences is the British-born blind pianist:
1. Jack Pryor.
2. Pat O'Malley.
3. Albert Ramsbottom.
4. Dwight Fiske.
5. Alec Templeton.
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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