(This test covers the period late September 1946 to mid-February 1947)
Prepared by
ALVIN C. EURICH, Stanford University ELMO C. WILSON, University of Minnesota
Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education
(Copyright 1947 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 four 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. On recent TIME tests the scores of students in colleges and junior colleges have averaged 47; in private schools, 43; in high schools, 38. On the October 1946 TIME Current Affairs Test, the scores of TIME readers (as reported in letters to TIME's editors) averaged 80. The test is given under the honor system—no peeking.
HOW TO SCORE
For each of the text questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example: 0. The President of the United States is:
1. Dewey. 3. Truman. 5. Wallace.
2. Hoover. 4. Vandenberg.
Truman, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3—standing for Truman—has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
U. S. AFFAIRS
1. As Nov. 5 neared, Republicans coined a slogan that appealed to many Americans :
/. "Fight BO — Bungling Officials."
2. "G.O.P. Means Go On to Prosperity."
3. "Government Should Serve, Not Run, the People."
4. "Had Enough? Vote Republican."
5. "No Meat? We'll Eat — a Republican in Each Senate Seat."
2. During the campaign itself, President Truman:
1. Denounced Henry Wallace and all his followers in a speech at Madison Square Garden.
2. Issued a statement to the press in which he listed the candidates he would like to see win in each Congressional District.
S. Stuck to his self-imposed vow of silence on politi cal matters.
4. Stumped the country pleading for a Democratic victory.
5. Took to the air to deliver his most bitter blast yet against the "Taft-Vandenberg-Bricker Axis."
3. When they counted the votes, all but one of these was a result:
1. Republicans had won the House.
2. Republicans had captured the Senate.
3. Republicans had won more gubernatorial posts.
4. Organized labor had managed to hang on to most of its stalwarts, many of them Republicans.
5. Tom Dewey had gained prestige in the race for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. 4. But Democrats and Republicans protested in unison when Senator Fulbright said President Truman should:
1. Appoint five Republicans to the Supreme Court.
2. Fire Eisenhower as Chief of Staff.
3. Give Republicans a majority in the Cabinet also.
4. Name a Republican Secretary of State and resign from office.
5. Renounce the President's privilege of veto.
5. The triumphant Republicans at once set to