The Time News Quiz: State of the Union

(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 1953 TO FEBRUARY 1954)

Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson

(Copyright 1954 by TIME Inc.)

This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, you needn't mark opposite the 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. For most 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. The President of the U.S. is: 1. Nixon 3. Eisenhower 5. Stevenson

2. Hoover 4. Truman

Eisenhower, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3—standing for Eisenhower—has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

1. Reviewing his first year in a radio-TV address, President Eisenhower promised that his "Administration would not tolerate": 1. Higher farm prices.

2. Any further rise in the national debt.

3. Unionization of federal employees.

4. A boom-and-bust America.

5. Sabotage of his program by Democrats in federal jobs. 2. A few days later in his State of the Union message the President noted "a great strategic change in the world during the past year"—the fact that: 1. Russia was becoming easier to negotiate with under Malenkov.

2. The West was gaining the initiative.

3. U.S. air bases now virtually encircle the Soviet empire.

4. European unity was a virtual fact.

5. Atomic weapons make land armies practically unnecessary. 3. In broad general terms he also recommended all but one of these: 1. Fewer arbitrary curbs on world trade.

2. Sharing with our allies certain knowledge of nuclear weapons.

3. Retention for this year of the regular corporation taxes and the excise taxes on liquor and gasoline.

4. Suffrage for District of Columbia residents.

5. Retention of unemployment and old-age insurance on its present base.

Foreign Affairs

4. Earlier, in a dramatic U.N. Assembly speech Ike offered to: 1. Abandon the veto.

2. Contribute U.S. forces to a U.N. army.

3. Consign atomic material to a U.N. pool for peaceful uses.

4. Double U.S. contributions to the U.,N. if the other Big Powers would too.

5. Extend technical assistance to Russia and her satellites. 5. Soviet reaction to this offer was to: 1. Assail it, then agree to discuss it.

2. Call it "first order statesmanship."

3. Disregard it completely.

4. Flatly refuse to consider it.

5. Give a weasel-word reply. 6. In the foreign relations field Ike had plenty of trouble in his own party over the Bricker Amendment, which had been designed to: 1. Extend the Monroe Doctrine to Asia.

2. Bar aid to any but democratic nations.

3. Forbid the sending of U.S. troops abroad without specific Congressional approval.

4. Transfer many of the State Department's functions to the Department of Defense.