TIME
(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD OCTOBER 1950 TO FEBRUARY 1951)
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson
Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American
Council on Education
(Copyright 1951 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, 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.
The test is much more fun if you don't peek.
FIVE CHOICES
For each of the 100 test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example:
0. Russia's boss is:
1. Kerensky.
2. Lenin. 3. Stalin.
4. Trotsky. 5. Stakhanov.
Stalin, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3 -- standing for Stalin -- has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
WAR IN ASIA
The Fight Up the Peninsula
1. After hanging on to the Pusan perimeter for six weeks, U.N. forces suddenly took the offensive with:
1. The Reds' own infiltration practices.
2. An artillery barrage which crumpled the right flank of the Red forces.
3. Amphibious landings at Inchon.
4. A pile-driving smash through the center of the Red lines.
5. A vast glider armada which landed behind enemy lines.
2. In October MacArthur's men entered the North Korean capital too late to catch this fat-faced Red leader, who calls himself:
1. Syngman Rhee.
2. Mao Tse-tung.
3. Eugene Chen.
4. Kim II Sung.
5. Gunga Din.
3. A new wrinkle in psychological warfare was provided by C-47 transports equipped with:
1. Devices for projecting propaganda messages on cloud banks.
2. Powerful loudspeakers.
3. Food packages to drop to starving Red civilians.
4. Flamethrowers which frightened the Red troops.
5. Comic book bombs.
4. Among the U.N. reinforcements who arrived to join the MacArthur armies were forces from all but one of these countries:
1. Eire.
2. Greece.
3. Turkey.
4. Canada.
5. Siam.
"An Entirely New War"
5. With shocking suddenness late in November, the U.N. victory march to the Manchurian border was hurled back by:
1. A Russian armada which landed troops behind the U.N. lines.
2. The advent of thousands of Soviet-made jet bombers.
3 Massed Red artillery firing "atomic shells."
4. Red Chinese troops which crossed over from Manchuria.
5. Ten divisions of Russian-led Outer Mongolians.
6. For the first time in the war, U.N. airmen were met by:
1. Antiaircraft fire.
2. A balloon barrage.
3. Russian MIG-15 jet fighters.
4. "Gravitation" rays which stopped plane engines in midflight.
5. Armed helicopters.
7. Effective were the Red tactics, which included the use of all but one of these:
l. Masses of man power.
2. Heavy and skillful mortar barrages.
3. Night attacks.
4. Horse cavalry.
5. Napalm bombing.
8. Meanwhile, U.N. casualties were heavy not only from enemy action but also from:
1. Bitterly cold weather.
2. Mass surrenders of poorly trained U.N. troops.
3. A serious influenza epidemic.
4. Confusion which resulted in thousands of U.N. troops being bombed by their own allies.
5. Yellow fever.
9. The reverses were particularly shocking to the world because of General MacArthur's widely publicized statement that:
1. "No army capable of stopping us exists in the Orient."
2. The U.S. 24th Division could be back home for Christmas, if they reached the Yalu River.
3. He would eat Christmas dinner in Peking.
4. He would ride a white horse across the Yalu.
5. Two divisions of U.S. troops had already been sent back to Tokyo.
10. The world's jitters increased when in a press conference President Truman said that:
1. Use of the atom bomb in the war had been under consideration .
2. The atom bomb would be used if the Chinese Reds did not withdraw soon.
3. A decision on the use of the atom bomb rested with MacArthur.
4. The U.N., and only the U.N., would decide whether to use the atom bomb.
5. He had penned one of his letters to Joe Stalin.
11. After being trapped by hordes of Chinese troops, U.S. 7th Division and the 1st Marine units fought their way out of an entrapment around:
1. Pyongyang.
2. Taejon.
3. Wonsan.
4. Changjin Reservoir
5. Inchon.
12. On other fronts on the peninsula the fighting by February 1951 had been marked by all but one of the following:
1. U.N. withdrawal from Pyongyang.
2. A valiant Turkish brigade fought Reds with knives and fists.
3. Hurried retreat from Seoul.
4. A strong U.N. counterdrive on Seoul.
5. Japanese divisions joined U.N. forces in Korea.
13. When the Eighth Army's Walton Walker was killed in a jeep accident he was succeeded by this Lieut. General:
1. Oliver Prince Smith.
2. Clifton Gates.
3. Edward Almond.
4. William H. Tunner.
5. Matthew B. Ridgway.
14. The Reds felt the sting of this jet plane, the fastest U.S. fighter to reach combat:
1. The Bat.
2. F80 Shooting Star.
3. B-36.
F90 Truman.
F-86 Sabre.
War in Korea
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.
15. The Pusan beachhead from which the U.N. forces fought their way to the Manchurian border, and toward which they again withdrew.
16. Where U.N. forces staged an orderly evacuation of 100,000 civilian Koreans and 115,000 troops.
17. Wonju, which changed hands several times.
18. Once a U.N. beachhead, again raided by South Koreans.
19. U.N. flyers were forbidden to cross the river which flows here.
The War of the Words
20. A U.N. resolution recommending that "all appropriate steps be taken to ensure conditions of stability throughout Korea" implicitly instructed MacArthur to:
1. Cross the Manchurian and Soviet borders if necessary.
2. Restore the Syngman Rhee government to power throughout Korea.
3. Begin the trials of Red war criminals in North Korea.
4. Cross the 38th parallel.
5. Use any weapons he needed to win the war.
21. In November the U.S., Russia and Great Britain were in rare agreement when they voted to invite Chinese Reds into U.N. discussion of:
1. A possible Chinese trusteeship in Korea.
2. MacArthur's report on Chinese intervention in Korea.
3. Outlawing of the atom bomb in the Korean war.
4. A general settlement of the Korean war.
5. Plans for extending the U.S. Point Four program to Manchuria.
22. And while the Peking radio called for more conscripts to drive the U.N. from Korea, Russia's Vishinsky insisted that:
1. There were no Chinese in Korea.
2. Russia was strictly neutral in the whole affair.
3. The Reds had no intention of driving U.S. forces from Korea.
4. All Red Chinese troops in Korea were volunteers.
5. Red China had been forced into the war by Allied bombing of Mukden.
23. The Chinese Reds coldly refused this invitation but suddenly accepted a previous invitation to send representatives to discuss:
1. Charges of U.S. aggression in Formosa.
2. Their possible election to membership in the U.N.
3. The future status of Hong Kong.
4. A U.N. program to check opium-smoking.
5. The Pakistan Plan for Peace in the Orient.
24. When this Chinese representative finally appeared at the Security Council meeting he made a speech which:
1. Was remarkably conciliatory.
2. Clearly disassociated Red China from Russia.
3. Condemned Red China's position.
4. Made it clear that Mao could not be weaned away from Moscow.
5. Was in the typical scholarly Mandarin manner.
25. After weeks of anxiously avoiding anything likely to upset the Chinese, the U.N. adopted and sent to Peking a third cease-fire plan which contained all but one of these proposals:
1. Immediate ceasefire.
2. Re-establishment of the 38th parallel boundary.
3. Withdrawal of all "non-Korean" troops.
4. Establishment of a new Korean government under U.N. guidance.
5. A Four-Power conference to discuss Formosa and other Oriental problems.
26. The Peking government rejected the cease-fire and demanded as a prior condition to any negotiations:
1. Their admission to the U.N.
2. The original copy of the White Paper.
3. Withdrawal of all "non-Oriental" forces from Korea.
4. A U.N. pledge to stop interfering in any part of the Orient.
5. Recognition of Red China by the U.S.
27. After one more message from Peking, this U.N. delegate pushed through a resolution which:
1. Imposed mic sanctions against Red China.
2. Adjourned to the bar.
3. Branded Red China an "aggressor."
4. Successfully negotiated new cease-fire terms through India's Sir Benegal Rau.
5. Turned Formosa over to the strong Peking government.
FOREIGN NEWS
Europe
28. Led by the British, a big majority in the Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly voted late in November to:
1. Disband the Council until U.N. victory in Korea.
2. Form a tight union of Western Europe.
3. Develop intergovernmental "specialized agencies" in slow moves toward European unity.
4. Fight Russia now.
5. Quit the U.N.
29. For the first time in 400 years the border between Scotland and England was closed because of:
1. English complaints against errant bagpipers.
2. Riots by Scottish nationalists.
3. A border clash between Scottish highlanders and Yorkshire lowlanders.
4. The theft of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey.
5. The Scots' rejection of British austerity food programs.
30. Overshadowing all issues in autumn German elections was:
1. Inflation.
2. Unification of East and West Germany.
3. Germany's entrance into the U.N.
4. Rearmament.
5. The declining quality of apple strudel.
31. In Paris, cabinet ministers and generals of the Supreme War Council decided to wage full-scale war against Ho Chi Minh's Communists by doing all but one of these:
1. Granting Indo-China complete independence.
2. Sending 50,000 more troops.
3. Sending more tanks and guns.
4. Sending more warships.
5. Appealing to the U.S. to speed up military-aid airplanes.
32. And to gain help in this struggle, this Frenchman:
1. Negotiated a loan of -L-1,000,000 from Britain.
2. Arranged to hire New Zealand mercenaries.
3. Flew to Washington for conferences with Truman.
4. Began drafting troops from Timbuktu.
5. Asked leading couturiers to design a new French uniform as a morale booster.
33. Death came recently to this beloved monarch of:
1. Norway.
2. Denmark.
3. Finland.
4. Sweden.
5. Luxembourg.
34. Heartening evidence that Britons had come a long way toward economic recovery was the announcement by Economic Czar Hugh Gaitskell that:
1. Exports now equal imports.
2. ECA aid to Britain would suspend Jan. 1.
3. Pub-crawling had increased tenfold.
4. The pound sterling would be revalued upward to $4.01.
5. The U.K. was now self-sufficient in food.
35. Returning from his three-week dash through 12 European capitals, General Eisenhower drove home all but one of these points:
1. Europe would do its part in the defense of a free world.
2. Germany must be treated as an equal before her soldiers could be effectively used.
3. The U.S. must send masses of troops to defend Europe.
4. Equipment should be the major U.S. contribution to Europe.
5. U.S. self-interest demanded that we help defend Europe.
The Far East
36. Providing the government revised its tax system, eliminated official graft and corruption, and took several other remedial measures, the mission headed by Daniel W. Bell recommended that the U.S. lend $250 million to:
1 . Pakistan.
2. India.
3. Japan.
4. Indonesia.
5. The Philippines.
37. Convicted of giving medical help to rebels in a country where he had spent almost half of his life giving med ical aid to the natives was this famous surgeon of:
1. Nepal.
2. China.
3. Burma.
4. Cuba.
5. Lobotomy.
38. This spiritual leader, who fled his capital ahead of invading Chinese Reds, is revered by millions as the:
1. Panchen Lama.
2. Pope of Afghanistan.
3. Grand Vizier of the Orient.
4. Living Mohammed.
5. Dalai Lama.
39. After three weeks of palaver at The Hague conference, Indonesians still clung to their demand that the Dutch cede them sovereignty over:
1. New Guinea.
2. West New Guinea.
3. Malaya.
4. Zuider Zee.
5. All Dutch properties in the Pacific.
The Hemisphere
40. Again the head of Brazil's government, legally elected this time, was ex-Dictator:
1. Christiano Machado.
2. Eduardo Gomes.
3. Juan Perdn.
4. Gonzalez Videla.
5. Getulio Vargas.
41. Before its currency was unpegged and allowed to seek its own level on the free market, U.S. speculators poured money into:
1. Canada.
2. Atlantis.
3. The Dominican Republic.
4. Argentina.
5. Chile.
42. To launch the Point Four pro gram there, the U.S. late in December laid out $800,000 to help increase the hydroelectric power in: 1. Colombia.
2. Brazil.
3. Argentina.
4. Hungary.
5. Cuba.
U. S. AFFAIRS
Congress and the President
43. Not long after the lame-duck 81st Congress limped back to Washington, the President sent a message asking for:
1. A declaration of war against Red China.
2. A day off.
3. Authority to defend Formosa at all costs.
4. An addition of almost $18 billion to the defense budget.
5. Authority to fight Red Russia alone in case the U. N. withdraws.
44. This acknowledged expert in labor relations, after being falsely accused of being a Communist, was confirmed by the Senate as:
1. Secretary of Labor.
2. Assistant Secretary of Defense.
3. Keeper of the Keys.
4. Director of Selective Service.
5. Treasurer of the United States.
45. The big draft issue centered on whether to conscript:
1. Doctors.
2. 18-year-olds.
3. Women.
4. Veterans World War II.
5. Men over 40
46. Making newspaper headlines wasd the Kefauver Committee, which was investigating:
1. The nation's birth rate.
2. Election frauds.
3. Communism.
4. Crime.
5. The monopoly in steel production.
47. In a final burst of legislative speed, the 81st Congress:
1. Approved statehood for Alaska.
2. Approved statehood for Hawaii.
3. Enacted a bill providing for universal military service.
4. Passed the $20 billion supplementary military appropriation.
5. Renewed the President's emergency powers for another year.
48. Just after the 82nd Congress opened, a coalition of Southerners and Republicans dealt the Administration a blow by:
1. Electing a Republican speaker of the House.
2. Restoring the Rules Committee to its old authority.
3. Voting to postpone confirmation of General Eisenhower's appointment.
4. Holding up all further expenditures for civilian defense.
5. Launching a filibuster against civil rights legislation.
49. Proposing extreme isolationism in a University of Virginia speech on U.S. foreign policy was ex-Ambassador:
1. Colonel McCormick.
2. Lewis Douglas.
3. Frank Costello.
4. William Bullitt.
5. Joseph P. Kennedy.
50. Adding his ex-Presidential voice to the Great Debate, Herbert Hoover said that the U.S. should:
1. Cut its world commitments down to the Western Hemisphere.
2. Abandon Formosa, Japan and the Philippines.
3. Build the Western Hemisphere into the Gibraltar of civilization.
4. Withdraw from the United Nations.
5. Impeach President Truman for foreign policy failures.
51. Senator Taft stepped into the fray by taking his stand between two pillars of conviction -- one that war be tween Russia and the U.S. is not inevitable, and the other that in the event of war the U.S. could never hope to:
1. Defeat Russia.
2. Defeat Russia through air power.
3. Defeat Russia in a great clash of land armies.
4. Defeat Russia with less than a ten-million-man army.
5. Push its troops beyond Paris.
52. Reviewing faults in Taft's and the Administration's programs, this Senator then offered an alternative which included all but one of these proposals:
1. Naval blockade of the Chinese coast.
2. No deals with the Reds to get U.S. forces out of Korea.
3. U.S. support of democratic ways and higher living standards in all non-Communist countries.
4. Withdrawal of U.S. divisions from NATO plans.
5. A 6,000,000-man U.S. armed force.
53. In his State of the Union message the President declared that "the defense of Europe is part of our own defense" and outlined a ten-point legislative pro gram that included all but one of these:
1. A new location for the capital, outside of Washington.
2. Extension and revision of the Selective Service Act.
3 New executive authorities to expand production and stabilize prices, wages and rents.
4. New military appropriations.
5. More foreign military and economic aid.
54. President Truman's budget for fiscal 1951 and 1952 called for:
1. A 23% increase in the national debt.
2. $140 billion for "national security."
3. Price ceilings on farm products.
4. A denial of the "pay as you go" principle.
5. Equal funds for other governmental functions as for national security.
Business and Labor
55. Setting a labor pattern which a number of other big corporations followed, Chrysler Corp.:
1. Adopted a profit-sharing system for all ten-year employees.
2. Voluntarily raised its workers' wages.
3. Signed a "no-strike, no-wage-cut" pact with its union "for the duration."
4. Gave each employee a 1950 car.
5. Signed a closed shop agreement with the U.A.W.
56. After all the worry about shortages, it looked as if the businessman's worst pinch would be in:
1. Lumber.
2. Steel.
3. Uranium.
4. Copper.
5. Manpower
57. President Truman appointed him:
1. Director of Economic Stabilization (a revived OPA).
2. Chief Electrician.
3. Director of Defense Mobilization.
4. Secretary of State.
5. Director of the War Labor Board.
58. Named to the unpopular task of setting up a system for general price controls was this former Toledo mayor:
1. Alan Valentine.
2. Bernard Baruch.
3. Leon Henderson.
4. Michael V. DiSalle.
5. Chester Bowles.
59. For the second time in seven weeks the nation's transportation system was tied up early in February by a wildcat strike of:
1. Railroad switchmen and yardmen.
2. Bus drivers.
3. Section foremen.
4. Airline pilots.
5. Stevedores.
60. Labor's greatest post-war victory in Continental Europe was the "co-determination" plan under which unions gained a partnership with management in the industries of:
1. Italy.
2. France.
3. The Ruhr.
4. Poland.
5. Belgium.
61. With prices at all-time highs in many commodities, the Government late in January clamped on wage-price controls under an edict which provided all but one of the following:
1. Price freezes at the highest levels between Dec. 19 and Jan. 25.
2. A rollback of prices to July 1 levels.
3. Exemptions of certain things like real estate and broadcasting services from the freeze.
4. Wage fixing at a rate no higher than the worker was receiving Jan. 25.
5. Future wage increases subject to approval by Wage Stabilization Board.
Here and There
62. The 1950 Census revealed that:
1. Every state had grown in population.
2. All but four states had increased in population.
3. New York grew the most.
4. Texas had more mules than Missouri.
5. The count will not affect the states' representation.
63. A two-year survey of U.S. charity by the Russell Sage Foundation revealed that:
1. Only the rich are generous.
2. Only the poor are generous.
3. The very poor and the very rich are the most generous of all.
4. The average family gives about 10% of its income to charity.
5. The Salvation Army had abandoned tambourines.
64. A new strategy for the defense of Alaska was developed after U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to turn the command of the theater over to:
1. General MacArthur.
2. The Navy
3. The WACs.
4. The Air Force.
5. The Eskimos.
What & Where
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.
65. Here was formed the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, described by church leaders as "one of the most historic events in American Christianity."
66. The bloody trail of crime which cost six lives ended here with the cap ture of Desperado William E. Cook.
67. Where the hydrogen bomb plant will be built.
68. State where Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas was defeated in an election upset.
OTHER EVENTS
Art and Entertainment
69. Last chapters in the decline & fall of a pet Jazz Age novelist are told in:
1. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody--Will Cuppy.
2. The Disenchanted--Budd Schulberg.
3. A Fearful Joy--Joyce Gary.
4. The Trouble of One House--Brendan Gill.
5. The Twenty-Fifth Hour--Virgil Gheorghiu.
70. From a huge cache of papers discovered in various Irish and Scottish castles, Yale scholars are editing a 45-volume series which begins with:
1. The Education of Dr. Samuel Johnson.
2. The Thirteen Clocks.
3. Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763.
4. Britain's Royal Family, Vol. I.
5. Shakespeare's Boyhood.
71. His death in November deprived the world of one of its greatest:
1. Sculptors.
2. Atomic scientists.
3. Mathematicians.
4. Playwrights.
5. Composers.
72. With John Gielgud and Pamela Brown playing the leads, Broadway is now hearing exciting blank verse in:
1. No Lady Is a Witch.
2. The Witch Is No Lady.
3. Bell, Book and Candle.
4. The Lady's Not for Burning.
5. The Lady's Burning Me.
73. Cities all over the U.S. this season heard Sir Thomas Beecham conduct the:
1. New York Philharmonic Society.
2. Philadelphia Orchestra.
3. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
4. Boston Symphony Orchestra.
5. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
74. A review of this concert artist's singing prompted an abusive letter to the Washington Post's Music Critic from:
1. The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (S.P.E.B.S.Q.S. A.).
2. Her husband, Bob Hope.
3. Rudolf Bing.
4. Harry Truman.
5. John L. Lewis.
75. A calculated affront to poetry which causes the teeth of serious poets to gnash is a recent volume of doggerel, Family Reunion, by that whimsical poetaster:
1. Carl Sandburg.
2. Robert Frost.
3. T.S. Eliot.
4. B.S. Pulley.
5. Ogden Nash.
76. Adapted by Sidney Kingsley from the powerful novel of the same name, the new Broadway play Darkness at Noon tells a convincing story of:
1. A post-atomic-war world.
2. The Hollywood star system.
3. Communist trials.
4. The power shortage.
5. Nuclear fission.
77. Death took this author, who created all but one of these still-living fictional characters:
1. George Follansbee Babbitt.
2. Sam Dodsworth.
3. H.M. Pulham, Esq.
4. Fred Cornplow.
5. Elmer Gantry.
Radio and Television
78. U.S. radio and TV editors voted her television's "Woman of the Year" for 1950:
1. Gloria Swanson.
2. Faye Emerson.
3. Anne Baxter.
4. Tallulah Bankhead.
5. Imogene Coca.
79. Featured in the industry-wide squabble over color television were all but one of these events:
1. The FCC approved the CBS system.
2. The FCC canceled RCA's authorization for experimental telecasts during regular broadcasting hours.
3. RCA showed newsmen and businessmen its improved system.
4. In a sudden reversal, FCC favored RCA's "dot sequential" system.
5. The Radio-TV Manufacturers Association launched a nationwide publicity campaign against CBS color.
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