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.