(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD MID-FEBRUARY 1949 TO EARLY JUNE 1949)
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 1949 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 given under the honor system— no peeking.
HOW TO SCORE
For each of the test 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
The President and Politics
1. Buttressing his official family with "before-November" Trumanities, the President brought in Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, who aroused deep growls from old sea dogs by:
1. Firing Admiral Louis Denfeld.
2. Merging Marine Corps aviation into Army & Navy air forces.
3. Stopping construction of the 65,000 ton supercarrier United States.
4. Drastically slashing the naval budget.
5. Merging Annapolis with West Point.
2. In April, the President sent to the Senate for confirmation as Under Secretary of Defense the name of F.D.R's old press secretary:
1. Marvin McIntyre.
2. Louis Howe
3. John J. McCloy.
4. Stephen T. Early.
5. Curtis E. Calder.
3. For Secretary of the Navy, the President nominated an Omaha businessman:
1. Harry Vaughan. 4. Thomas
2. Jonathan Daniels. Pendergast Jr.
3. Francis Matthews. 5. Robert Quinn.
4. In May, a well-heeled and powerful opposition overthrew the old, corrupt political machine bossed by:
1 . Ed Kelley of Chicago.
2. Ed Crump of Memphis.
3. The Albany O'Connells.
4. Dave Beck of Seattle.
5. Frank Hague of Jersey City.
5. That the Roosevelt name was still magic with the voters was significantly revealed when:
1. Jimmy Roosevelt won the California gubernatorial primaries.
2. John Roosevelt was elected Mayor of Hollywood.
3. F.D.R. Jr. was sent to Congress from a New York City district.
4. Eleanor Roosevelt easily won the Democratic nomination for Senator from New York.
5. Anna Eleanor Boettiger was sent to the State legislature in Arizona.
6. The Democrats got an unexpected chance to increase their strength in the Senate with the resignation of G.O.P.
Senator :
1. Baldwin of Connecticut.
2. Humphrey of Minnesota.
3. Bridges of New Hampshire.
4. Wagner of New York.
5. Wherry of Nebraska.
Congress
7. The