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(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD JULY TO MID-OCTOBER 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, 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.

FIVE CHOICES

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. Russia's boss is:

1. Kerensky. 3. Stalin. 5. Stakhanov.

2. Lenin. 4. Trotsky.

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

Election Incidents & Issues

1. What prominent candidate dutifully enrolled in his party for the first time?

Adlai Stevenson.

Robert R. McCormick.

Homer Capehart.

Dwight Kisenhower.

5. James Byrnes. 2. In coming out for Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles declared that the prime issue in the campaign is and must be: /. "The Washington." mess n 2. Foreign policy.

3. Inflation.

4. ism." "Creeping Social 5. Truman's labor policy. 3. At Philadelphia Ike re-emphasized the peaceful intent of his promise, made at Madison Square Garden, to:

1. Recognize Red China.

2. Exploit the Mid dle East.

3. Restore the free dom of satellite peoples.

4. Aid Negro South Africans. u 5. "Take care" of Peron.

4. Adlai Stevenson said that co-exis tence with Russia involved:

1. An all-out war effort.

2. Compromise but never appeasement.

3. A return to isolation.

4. Restraint in his quipping.

5. The freeing of all satellite peoples. 5. When Stevenson gibed that "Nobody can stand on a bushel of eels" he was poking fun at:

1. Ike's stand on Nixon.

2. Ike and the Mc-Carthy-Jenner situation.

3. Truman's record.

4. Corruption in high places.

5. The Republican party platform.

6. What famous American said of Adlai and Ike: "They are both my boys"?

1. Wayne Morse.

2. Douglas MacArthur.

3. Eugene Dennis.

4. George Catlett Marshall.

5. Harry Truman.

7. What Wisconsinite's victory over a "talkathon" underlined the issue of Communists in the Government?

1. Robert M. La Follette.

2. Len Schmitt.

3. Joe McCarthy.

4. Arthur Bliss Lane.

5. Ralph Bunche.

8. At Kasson, Minn., Ike scored the "agricrats," came out:

1. Against all farm price-supports.

2. For full parity support.

3. Against large landholdings.

4. For 80% parity instead of the present 90%.

5. For the Brannan Plan.

9. When Truman first snapped out at "snollygosters" he was referring to:

1. Dixiecrats who support