(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD LATE OCTOBER 1951 TO MID-FEBRUARY 1952)
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson
(Copyright 1952 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.
FIVE CHOICES
For each of the 105 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. 3. Stalin.
2. Lenin. 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.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
The President and Congress
1. John Q. Public clutched indignantly at his thinner-after-November wallet. Delaware's Senator John James Williams had prodded into public view:
1. An Administration decision to tax savings accounts.
2. The figures on the President's traveling expenses.
3. Corruption among Internal Revenue collectors.
4. Evidence on widespread counterfeiting activities.
5. A plan to increase the salaries of the already well-paid public schoolteachers.
2. Another handle for critics of the Administration: Flo Bratten, secretary to the "Veep," had apparently:
1. Cornered the bourbon market.
2. Helped get an RFC loan for a Miami Beach hotel.
3. Received a free trip to Korea.
4. Helped a Texas oilman make a deal with the Navy.
5. Switched her brand to chinchilla.
3. Garrulous Theron Lamar Caudle, the influence peddlers' buddy, went down the drain, but the President left unchanged the status of his boss:
1. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder.
2. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath.
3. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin.
4. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer.
5. Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson.
4. Defense production was a national headache, too. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg's report on his return from Korea underlined the fact that we lag woefully behind the Communists in numbers of:
1. Jet aircraft.
2. Rifles.
3. Submarines.
4. Bazookas.
5. Winter clothing for the troops.
5. Some of the President's appointments ran into snags. For instance, Judge Thomas Murphy played an unwilling Hercules to Truman's Augeas. He first accepted, then rejected, the job of:
1. RFC chairman.
2. Supreme Court Justice.
3. Expunger of corruption in the Federal Government.
4. Roving European troubleshooter.
5. Semi-anonymous White House assistant.
6. Although Truman subsequently gave him an interim appointment, a Senate subcommittee, mulling over Philip Jessup's part in Administration foreign policy, refused to confirm him as:
1. Senator from