Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test
for the American Council on Education
(Copyright, 1941, by Time Inc.)
EXPLANATION
This test is to enable Time readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test. In all, answer 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 previous Time Tests College Student scores have been reported averaging 60; Time Reader scores have averaged 89.7. This test is given under the honor system--no peeking.
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 answer 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 0 on the answer sheet.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
THE ELECTIONS
1. Though beaten after the gamest losing campaign since Bryan in 1896, Wendell Willkie polled:
1. More votes than Roosevelt did in 1936.
2. Almost a million more than Landon in 1936.
3. 49.8% of the popular vote.
4. More votes than any Republican in history.
5. More popular but less electoral votes than the President.
2. Mr. Willkie used all but one of these arguments:
1. Recovery and rearmament are business problems best handled by a business man.
2. America should hold out for peace at any price.
3. No American is indispensable enough to deserve a third term.
4. Business could create jobs for all unemployed if government would let it.
5. Mr. Roosevelt was talking top big and doing too little about rearmament and aid to Britain.
3. All but one of these factors played a major part in assuring Mr. Roosevelt's victory:
1. The war crisis.
2. The rearmament boom.
3. The labor and relief votes.
4. The Third Term movement.
5. Mr. Willkie's early campaign mistakes.
4. The number of States captured by Roosevelt was:
1. 43.
2. 38.
3. 32.
4. 28.
5. 40.
5. Every city of over 400,000 went to Roosevelt except:
1. Chicago. J. Cincinnati.
2. Minneapolis.
3. Cincinnati.
4. Los Angeles.
5. Philadelphia.
6. Right after his reelection, Congress proved he was no dictator by turning down his request to:
1. Approve his bases-for-destroyers swap.
2. Confirm Jesse Jones as Secretary of Commerce.
3. Balance the budget.
4. Adjourn and go home.
5. Enlarge the Supreme Court.
7. Three months later Willkie was repudiated by many adherents when he:
1. Refused to accept a Defense Commission post.
2. Supported the President's Lend-Lease Bill.
3. Hinted he might accept a Cabinet post.
4. Defended the old line GOP on Lincoln's Birthday.
5. Defended "Forty Essential New Deal Agencies" in a magazine article.
U. S. FOREIGN RELATIONS
8. President Roosevelt in his historic December Fireside Talk said all but one of the following:
1. "A nation can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender."
2. "Business deserves another Breathing Spell."
3. "If Britain goes down we will all be living at the point of a gun."
4. "I believe the axis powers will not win this war."
5. "There is risk in any course we may take."
9. Most sensational U. S. aid to Britain since the 50 destroyers was the release of prior purchase rights on:
1. America's new 30-ton tanks.
2. Forty-six "Flying Fortresses" with bombsights.
3. Three hundred Airacobra fighters.
4. 3,000 new U. S. mosquito boats.
5. 500,000 Garand automatic rifles.
10. Mr. Roosevelt dramatized the friendliness of his policy towards Latin America by:
1. Sending Vice-President-elect Henry Wallace to the inauguration of Mexico's President Camacho.
2. Easing the high tariff on Argentine beef.
3. Upping the U. S. Treasury price for Mexican and Peruvian silver 20%.
4. Declaring Martinique inside the war zone.
5. Making a good will "fishing" trip to Rio.
11. At the beginning of 1941, America had an ambassador on duty in only one of these European countries:
1. Germany.
2. Spain.
3. Belgium
4. France.
5. Great Britain.
12. As his personal envoy without title or status the President sent to London in January:
1. Admiral Leahy.
2. Wendell Willkie.
3. Colonel William Donovan.
4. John G. Winant
5. Harry Hopkins
13. President Roosevelt infuriated the Axis, dramatized U. S.-Britain cordiality by:
1. Breaking precedent in going out on his yacht to meet new British Ambassador Lord Halifax.
2. Asking him right over to dinner.
3. Putting him up at the White House.
4. Calling him "almost a member of my Cabinet."
5. Declaring the job too big for one man and asking for two additional British ministers.
NATIONAL DEFENSE
14. "To prevent war millionaires," Congress in early October passed a bill providing that excess corporation profits should be taxed at least:
1. 33%.
2. 45%.
3. 50%.
4. 74%.
5. 25%.
15. Although climbing now, last December the output of U. S. war planes was below estimates by:
1. 30%.
2. 60%.
3. 10%.
4. 75%.
5. 90%.
16. Most sensational defense proposal as 1941 opened was C.I.O.'s Walter P. Reuther's that:
1. Industry must share profits to avoid strikes.
2. Idle auto plants could build 500 planes a day.
3. The U. S. should take over defense industries.
4. The big C.C.C. should be militarized.
5. Labor should accept a 60-hour week.
17. On January 8, the President submitted to Congress a 1940-41 budget of: 1. $7,000,000,000.
2. $3,000,000,000.
3. $17,000,000,000.
4. $45,000,000,000.
5. $22,000,000,000.
18. Purpose of the 4-man Priorities Board is to:
1. Decide what orders (government and private) to fill first.
2. Decide which drafted men to call first.
3. Make sure Labor gets first call over Capital.
4. See that our orders are filled before Britain's.
5. Settle disputes among the 269 members of the National Defense Advisory Commission.
19. Goaded for months by critics demanding a single defense administrator, the President's answer was to appoint as heads of the Office of Production Management with equal powers:
1. William S. Knudsen and Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.
2. Sidney Hillman and Donald Nelson.
3. William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman.
4. Donald Nelson and Marriner S. Eccles.
5. Jesse Jones and William S. Knudsen.
20. Steel industry leaders were first reluctant to increase capacity during the rearmament boom because:
1. The cost cannot be written off for tax purposes until 1950.
2. The present inadequate capacity helps them hold the government up for high prices on, rearmament.
3. America's iron ore reserves are running low.
4. Only cut prices could sell the post-war output.
5. They do not wish to hire more C. I. O. labor.
21. In his Lend-Lease Bill to aid Britain, the President asked for all but one of these unprecedented powers:
1. To name almost anything a defense article.
2. To produce or obtain in any way any defense article needed.
3. To transfer any defense article or defense information to any country he may name.
4. To assume a defensive protectorate over any European-owned territories in this hemisphere.
5. To buy any defense article from any country.
22. Among the strongest opponents of the lend-lease bill are all but one of the following:
1. General Hugh Johnson.
2. Gerald Nye.
3. Charles E. Lindbergh.
4. Burton K. Wheeler.
5. William Bullitt.
23. Back from a personal inspection tour of England, Wendell Willkie urged the U. S. to do all but one of these things:
1. Stop fooling ourselves and plan to send Britain troops if necessary.
2. Realize that if Britain falls the U. S. will be at war in a month or two.
3. Pass the Lend-Lease Bill with minor modifications.
4. Start giving Britain 5 to 10 destroyers monthly.
5. Give Britain practically all our patrol bombers and lots more merchant ships.
24. Although the lowest bidder, Henry Ford was not granted a ten million dollar U. S. order for trucks because:
1. His plants were declared inadequate.
2. He is on the National Defense Commission.
3. He inserted a clause "for domestic use only."
4. He had previously refused a British order for Rolls-Royce engines.
5. He refused to be bound by State and Federal labor laws.
25. Suddenly in mid-February came the news that Britain and Australia were expecting a quick Japanese thrust at the Indies--and the U. S. promptly:
1. Sent its Asiatic squadron to Singapore.
2. Drastically curtailed arms shipments to Britain.
3. Lent China another $50,000,000.
4. Gave Ambassador Nomura his passport.
5. Ordered the families of navy men home from the Philippines.
LABOR
26. Most dramatic labor news of 1940 was made by John L. Lewis when he:
1. Resigned as head of C. I. O. because of alleged Communist control.
2. Signed a closed shop contract with Tom Girdler's Republic Steel.
3. Offered to resign if Roosevelt were elected.
4. Joined the Communist party.
5. Punched Bill Green's eye at a Labor Conference.
27. By passing a pious, meaningless resolution, the A. F. of L. convention evaded its most explosive issue:
1. The government's request to renounce temporarily the right to strike.
2. Ouster of two Communists from Executive Board.
3. The elimination of racketeers from Labor.
4. Peace overtures made by the C. I. O.
5. The President's plea to give up the 40-hour week to speed rearmament.
28. Last major social reform of the New Deal was finally legitimized in February when the U. S. Supreme Court:
1. Refused to review the National Securities Act
2. Ruled Social Security here to stay.
3. Outlawed child labor in interstate commerce.
4. Denied an appeal by defense industries for wage-hour law exemptions.
5. Approved government-financed life insurance.
HERE AND THERE
29. The 1940 census showed U. S. population to be:
1. 131,000,000.
2. 110,000,000.
3. 125,000,000.
4. 145,000,000.
5. 153,000,000.
30. The Federal Reserve Board caused a sensation on January 2 by urging Congress to:
1. Lend $1,000,000,000 of buried gold from Fort Knox to South America. 2. Put America back on the gold standard.
3. End the President's power to devalue the dollar.
4. Raise the rediscount rate to end cheap money.
5. Cancel the Finnish debt.
31. Secretary Morgenthau set a precedent in December with the new $500,000,000 U. S. note issue by:
1. Selling them all abroad.
2. Cutting the interest to 2%.
3. Selling them through the post office.
4. Removing the tax-exempt clause.
5. Not selling any to banks.
FOREIGN NEWS
THE ITALO-GREEK WAR
32. Late in October Mussolini launched an unprovoked attack on Greece, and by year's end all but one of these things had happened:
1. Rome had been heavily bombed.
2. He had lost all Southern Albania.
3. The heads of his Army and Navy had resigned.
4. Hitler had sent troops and planes to his aid.
5. His prestige had suffered such a blow that Churchill urged the Italians to drive him out.
33. Guiding Greece in the war until his death in January was tough little Premier:
1. Eleutherios Venizelos.
2. Alexander Papagos.
3. S. Anargyros.
4. Basil Zaharoff.
5. John Metaxas.
34. Greece was helped by all but one of the following:
1. Superior mechanized equipment.
2. Bad weather.
3. Mountainous terrain.
4. Poor Italian morale.
5. The R. A. F.
35. But despite their victories, many experts believed the Greek army faced its darkest days when:
1. Turkey showed signs of turning toward the Axis.
2. Churchill recalled his troops in Greece to defend Britain.
3. Greek supplies began to peter out.
4. Bulgaria confirmed the report Germany wanted to march across it to the Greek border.
5. Mussolini took personal command of his troops.
36. Meanwhile the extension of World War II to Greece gave the British an opportunity to establish a needed naval base on the Greek island of:
1. Cyprus. 3. Malta.
2. Crete.
3. Malta.
4. Porto Edda.
37. By mid-February Britain's mastery of the Mediterranean had been evidenced in all but one of these ways:
1. Its fleet had sailed unchallenged into the narrow Adriatic long considered an Italian lake.
2. It had sailed up Italy's coast and shelled Genoa.
3. It had defeated the Italian navy at sea in a great all-day battle.
4. No Italian ships dared interfere when the British fleet shelled Italian troops in Libya.
5. It had almost halted Italy's attempts to provision her African armies.
ELSEWHERE IN THE BALKANS
38. There were pogroms and near anarchy in Rumania in January as:
1. The Nazis seized all available food.
2. Communists assassinated Premier Antonescu.
3. Iron Guardists tried to seize the government.
4. King Carol flew back from Spain to rally his supporters.
5. German and Russian troops clashed at the Bessa-rabian frontier.
39. Claiming the Axis was preparing an expeditionary force inside its borders, Britain on February 10:
1. Broke off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria.
2. Landed an Anzac division on the Dalmatian Coast.
3. Broke with Yugoslavia.
4. Bombed Rumanian oil fields from Crete.
5. Broke with Rumania.
WAR IN AFRICA
40. All but one of these things were true of the recapture of Sidi Barr#&226;ni in mid-December:
1. About 40,000 Fascist troops and huge quantities of materiel were captured.
2. The British force was greatly outnumbered.
3. The Italians were outflanked, attacked from the rear.
4. The Egyptian army joined the British to drive out the invaders.
5. The attack was supported by fleet bombardments from off shore.
41. Pressing on under the masterly direction of Generals Wavell and Wilson, Britain's African Army captured in rapid succession:
1. Bardia, Tobruch, Derna, Cyrene.
2. Cyrene, Bardia, Tripoli, Derna.
3. Bardia, Tobruch, Djibouti, Aden.
4. Tobruch, Pantelleria, Aden, Cyrene.
5. Aden, Tobruch, Derna, Bardia.
42. And with the fall of Bengasi, the campaign became one of history's great military operations, Britain's army having accomplished all but one of these things:
1. Advanced against fortified resistance more than 400 miles in eight weeks.
2. Established shoulder-to-shoulder contact with General Weygand's army in Algeria.
3. Captured the entire province of Cyrenaica.
4. Checked the Axis threat from the west against Egypt and Suez.
5. Captured the whole Italian Army of East Libya (150,000 men) and their equipment.
43. Meanwhile, all but one of these things had happened elsewhere in Africa:
1. The British drove 110 miles into Eritrea.
2. Stukas fatally disabled a British cruiser, crippled a plane carrier off Tunis.
3. Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia, raised a new army against Italy.
4. The Parliament of South Africa passed a vote of "no sympathy" against Britain.
5. Free French forces raided 300 miles into Libya from Gabon to the South.
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
44. For all but one of the following reasons, the German counter-blockade has been more effective than in World War I:
1. Britain can no longer base its convoys on the Irish ports.
2. Germany is utilizing planes as well as submarines.
3. More German surface raiders are at large on the high seas.
4. German submarines have bases far nearer the British life lines.
5. Britain is unable to raise as much food at home as in 1918.
45. Bristol, Liverpool, Southampton, and Cardiff have been bombed especially hard because they are:
1. The British invasion ports.
2. Important railroad centers.
3. The ports through which overseas supplies reach Britain.
4. The homes of Churchill, Eden, Bevin and Halifax respectively.
5. The sites of great airplane factories.
46. The great British social upset wrought by war was evi dent in the widespread belief that the next Prime Minister would be Trade Union leader and Minister of Labor:
1. Clement Attlee.
2. Sir Stafford Cripps.
3. Malcolm MacDonald.
4. Jim Thomas.
5. Ernest Bevin.
47 Between now and midsummer, Britain faces all but one of these new dangers:
1. Pestilence spreading from the unsanitary over crowded bomb shelters.
2. Actual invasion by Nazi troops coming by sea or air.
3. Starvation from (the counter-blockade.
4. Civil War led by the Labor Party.
5. All-out bombing by 5,000 planes a day.
48. The British government has had the right since last May, but only this month began to:
1. Conscript labor.
2. Attach savings.
3. Imprison suspected Fifth Columnists without trial.
4. Ration food.
5. Censor the press.
49. In his first world broadcast in five months on the prog ress of the war, Winston Churchill said all but one of these things :
1. About U. S. troops: " We do not need them this year nor next year nor any year I can foresee."
2. About U. S. supplies: " Give us the tools and we will finish the job."
3. About Bulgaria: "Airfields are being occupied by German ground personnel numbering thousands."
4. About Genoa: "Our fleet entered the gulf . . . and bombarded the naval base in a shattering manner."
5. About Malta: "It has held out amazingly but we will have to abandon it for strategic reasons."
REMAKING FRANCE
50. After failing to take Dakar, Free French forces under General de Gaulle:
1. Disbanded and returned to unoccupied France.
2. Conquered the African colony of Gabon.
3. Sailed for the West Indies and occupied Martinique.
4. Joined General Weygand's army in North Africa.
5. Overthrew the pro-Vichy colonial government of Indo-China.
51. Then 84-year-old Marshal Petain made a surprise move by ousting from power his Foreign Minister, Mussolini's friend:
1. Pierre Laval.
2. Paul Baudouin.
3. Marcel Peyrouton.
4. Maxime Weygand.
5. Charles de Gaulle.
52. For four weeks Pierre Etienne Flandin was Foreign Minister--then Petain appointed a new Foreign Minister and Vice Premier acceptable to the Nazis:
1. Admiral Jean Darlan.
2. The Duke of Reichstadt.
3. Paul Reynaud.
4. Marcel Peyrouton.
5. Paul Baudouin.
53. Vichy's best ace in the hole against too humiliating Nazi terms continued to be:
1. The 200,000 German prisoners still in French prison camps.
2. The French warships taken over by Britain.
3. General Weygand and his powerful North African Army.
4. The forces still intact in the impregnable Maginot Line.
5. The powerful fleet based at Martinique.
THE THEATRE OF WAR
Directions: The following statements identify scenes of important war developments in and around the Mediterranean. 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.
54. Taranto, where the British say they put half Italy's capital ships out of action.
55. Corizza, where Italy's military weakness was first revealed.
56. Salonika, objective toward which Mussolini thought he was starting a parade through Greece.
57. Ankara, capital of the strongest Near East military power emboldened by Italian reverses.
58. Dobruja, lost province which changed hands again.
59. Sidi Barr#&226;ni, where Britain won its first land victory of the war.
60. Suda Bay, newly occupied base from which British are bombing southern Italy and threatening supply lines to Libya.
61. Italy's Dodecanese Islands, cut off when Greece declared war.
62. Bucharest, shaken by earthquake and massacres within a month.
63. Valona, where British attacked Italians from their rear.
THE FAR EAS
64. Japan, after several false starts, finally got around late in 1940 to recognizing the puppet Nanking government under former Chinese Premier:
1. Yuan Shih-kai.
2. Wu Pei-fu.
3. Chang Tso-lin.
4. Wong King Kong.
5. Wang Ching-wei.
65. Response of the U. S. to Tokyo's recognition of the Nanking government was to:
1. Lend Chiang Kai-shek another $100,000,000.
2. Accept Britain's offer to base the Pacific fleet at Singapore.
3. Recall Ambassador Grew from Tokyo.
4. Dispatch two divisions of marines to the Philippines.
5. Again call Japan's attention to the Nine Power Pact.
66. Nevertheless Japan will try to be friends, according to her new Ambassador Nomura, if the U. S.:
1. Accepts her Axis alliance and Far East domination.
2. Sends her all the scrap iron and oil she needs.
3. Will sign a non-aggression treaty.
4. Succeeds in making Russia friendly too.
5. Turns over the Philippines.
ELSEWHERE
67. The Mexican election installing Avila Camacho as President:
1. Was Mexico's first bloodless election in twenty years.
2. Brought to power Mexico's near-Communist Confederation of Workers (C. T. M.).
3. Marked a definite swing to the Right, with a promise of more cordial relations with the U. S.
4. Promised immunity to Nazis operating openly in Mexico.
5. Brought to the Presidency a man who had fought all his life to oust foreign interests from Mexico.
68. Into the new province of "Westmark," declared by Hit ler to be "German" the Nazi government incorporated the French territory of:
1. Malmedy.
2. Provence.
3. Brittany.
4. Lorraine.
5. Auvergne.
69. According to Albert Einstein, the only organization which has consistently dared resist the Nazis inside Germany is:
1. The Militant Order of Zion.
2. The universities.
3. The Christian Church.
4. The labor unions.
5. The press.
70. By New Years Day, 1941, only three kings of continental Europe could call their crowns their own:
1. Gustaf of Sweden, Boris III of Bulgaria, George II of Greece.
2. Boris III of Bulgaria, Gustaf of Sweden, Carol II of Rumania.
3. George II of Greece, Christian of Denmark, Haakon of Norway.
4. Christian of Denmark, Carol II of Rumania, Boris III of Bulgaria.
5. Leopold of Belgium, Gustaf of Sweden, Haakon of Norway.
BUSINESS & FINANCE
71. At year's end the Federal Reserve Board Index showed U. S. industrial production: 1. Falling off slightly as defense orders lagged.
2. Just getting back to the pre-war level.
3. Almost as high as in the war boom of 1918.
4. Almost as high as the 1929 pre-crash peak.
5. At the highest level in history.
72. U. S. national income in 1940 was the highest since 1929, about:
1. 45,000,000.
2. $60,000,000,000.
3. $72,000,000,000.
4. $95,000,000,000.
5. $110,000,000,000.
73. Commodity prices, which declined very slightly in the first nine months of 1940, in the final quarter:
1. Rose slightly.
2. Continued downward.
3. Shot up with the arms boom.
4. Fell sharply.
5. Fluctuated wildly.
74. The only one of the following businesses notably passed up by 1940's boom is:
1. Construction.
2. Retailing.
3. Railroads.
4. Automobilies.
5. The stockmarket.
75. Despite the rearmament boom, the A. F. of L.'s latest estimate set unemployment at about:
1. 3,000,000.
2. 5,000,000.
3. 8,000,000
4. 10,000,000.
5. 12,000,000.
76. Material requiring the biggest percentage increase in capacity to meet the defense program is:
1. Electric power.
2. Aluminum.
3. Wheat.
4. Wood pulp.
Copper.
77. To get the extra copper the U. S. will need this year, the Defense Commission has arranged to:
1. Let the price go up.
2. Import 200,000 tons from South America.
3. Clamp down on sales to Russia, Japan.
4. Have the copper industry work seven days and nights a week.
5. Extend a $2,000,000,000 R.F.C. plant-expansion loan for Anaconda, Kennecott, Phelps Dodge.
78. A substantial majority of business executives agree that the rearmament boom will:
1. End leaving us with our economic problems worse than ever.
2. Neither advance nor retard lasting economic recovery.
3. Lead to lasting recovery only in consumer industries.
4. Lead to lasting recovery on almost all economic fronts.
5. Bring U. S. business as a whole to its soundest period of prosperity.
PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS
Directions: Each of the ten personalities pictured is identified by one of the following phrases. Place the number of the correct phrase on the answer sheet opposite the number of the picture.
1. Newspaper columnist whose strong support of F.D.R. shocked readers.
2. Late strong man premier of Greece.
3. John L. Lewis' successor as CIO head.
4. Mexico's new president.
5. Director of the draft.
6. Leading Laborite in British cabinet.
7. Isolationist's wife and author of "The Wave of the Future."
8. Nazi puppet-premier of Rumania.
9. He pictorialized music into a new art form.
10. New British Ambassador to the United States.
11. Panama Hattie.
12. Italophile ousted as foreign minister of France.
13. Defense Commission official in charge of production.
14. Famed Italian army chief dropped after defeats.
15. War pessimist who resigned ambassadorship "to help keep the U. S. out of war."
16. New Queen Mother of Rumania.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
89. Privately owned U. S. radio is spending $2,000,000 to improve its broadcasting to South America -- expects this year:
1. To drive Axis propaganda broadcasts off the air.
2. To be taken over by the government.
3. To sell 10,000,000 receiving sets in South America.
4. To add television and frequency modulation.
5. To have 12 powerful stations in service.
90. New treatment for internal cancer that "offers a real hope" is based on:
1. Swallowing radio-active phosphorus.
2. Continued exposure to deep X-rays.
3. Doses of chalmoogra oil.
4. Rapid freezing and thawing.
5. Artificially induced fevers.
91. A $500,000 study of 4,000 college students shows that those prepared in high school by "progressive" methods:
1. Got slightly higher marks.
2. Made better athletes.
3. Got lower marks.
4. Tended to be poor mixers.
5. Were weakest in mathematics.
92. The essential war material which Dow Chemical Com pany has just begun extracting commercially from sea water is:
1. Nitrates.
2. Aluminum.
3. Magnesium.
4. Salt.
5. Gold.
93. Near collision-proof automobiles that can't be dented with an axe are planned by Henry Ford with bodies of:
1. Armor' plate.
2. Aluminum.
3. Plywood.
4. Plastic.
5. Hard rubber.
94. New neutralizer for tooth decay that also increases the amount of calcium deposited on the teeth is based on an essential ingredient of saliva:
1. Iodine.
2. Urea.
3. Chalk.
4. Potassium permanganate.
5. Oxygen.
95. Promised by scientists to be visible with the naked eye before the year's end was:
1. A comet.
2. A synthetically hypertrophied uranium atom.
3. Arcturus.
4. A malaria microbe stained and swollen with purple agar-agar.
5. The molecular structure of a new steel alloy.
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
96. Ernest Hemingway's latest, possibly greatest book, "For Whom thre Bell Tolls," deals with:
1. Sailors on the long voyage home.
2. Religious strife in Mexico.
3. Bull fighting in Spain.
4. Dynamiting a bridge behind Franco's lines.
5. Escape from a Nazi concentration camp.
97. Walt Disney's "Fantasia," new cinema form which visualizes music, presents among others the work of:
1. Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky.
2. Cole Porter, Benny Goodman, Raymond Scott.
3. Grieg, Sibelius, A. Conan Doyle.
4. Verdi, Puccini, DeemsTaylor.
5. Arthur Sullivan, Stephen Foster, Richard Strauss.
98. America's last great private art collection was willed
this fall to the National Gallery in Washington by:
1. Andrew W. Mellon.
2. Peter A. B. Widener.
3. Henry Clay Frick.
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
5. Edward G. Robinson.
99. "The Long Voyage Home," directed by John Ford and one of the masterful screen adaptations of all time, is based on four short sea plays by:
1. Joseph Conrad.
2. Eugene O'Neill.
3. Herman Melville.
4. Joseph C. Lincoln.
5. Robert Sherwood.
100. Busy writing another novel from his new quarters in a Nazi concentration camp is the creator of the in imitable Jeeves and the harebrained Bertie Wooster:
1. A. P. Herbert.
2. H. I. Philips.
3. H. G. Wells.
4. P. G. Wodehouse.
5. Evelyn Waugh.
101. Oliver Wiswell is the:
1. Famous Dickens character who asked for more.
2. New conductor of the Boston Symphony.
3. Author of "Make Bright the Arrows."
4. Tory hero of Kenneth Roberts' new novel.
5. Artist whose "Horse Laugh" won the Carnegie award.
102. William Randolph Hearst's fabulous collection of art treasures is being:
1. Auctioned for British war relief.
2. Donated to San Simeon Museum in Golden Gate Park.
3. Put on sale through two New York Department stores.
4. Auctioned by a Chicago art gallery.
5. Sold for Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund.
103. As the fight between ASCAP and the major broadcasting chains neared a climax, the Federal Government intervened by:
1. Indicting ASCAP as a monopoly.
2. Naming Madame Secretary Perkins to arbitrate.
3. Threatening to take over the chains.
4. Threatening to withdraw copyright privileges.
5. Setting up the B.M.I, to rival ASCAP.
104. In January death claimed the author of famed stream-of-consciousness novel "Ulysses"-- Irish, impoverished, nearly blind:
1. James Joyce.
2. W. B. Yeats.
3. Sean O'Faolain.
4. James T. Farrell.
5. Donn Byrne.
105. From an art point of view the greatest loss in the war has been:
1. The stained glass shattered in Westminster Abbey.
2. The paintings destroyed when the British bombed the Vatican.
3. The Christopher Wren churches demolished in London.
4. The pyramids bombed by the Italians in Egypt.
5. The Parthenon dynamited in Athens.
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