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.
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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