Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939

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Prepared by ALVIN C. EURICH, Stanford University and ELMO C. WILSON, University of Minnesota Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education (Copyright, 1939, by Time Inc.)

EXPLANATION This test is reprinted in TIME to enable TIME readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs by the same test that was used in hundreds of schools at the end of last term. Additional copies are available for group programs, on request to TIME'S Chicago office, 330 East 22nd Street.

In recording your answers, do not make any marks at all opposite the questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed alongside of the test. In all, answer sheets for four persons are provided.

After you have taken the test, you can check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of this test, entering number of your right answers as your score on your answer sheet. On previous TIME Test College Students score have averaged 58; TIME Reader scores have averaged 84.

This test is given under the honor system — no peeking.

DIRECTIONS For each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet.

Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover).

Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since the number of this question is 0, the number 2 — standing for Roosevelt — has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

1. Most public opinion surveys indicate that the leading popular choices for the 1940 Presidential nominations are:

1. Vandenberg and Farley. 2. Hopkins and Lodge. 4. Hull and Taft. 3. Pendergast and Hines. 5. Garner and Dewey.

2. The attempt to impeach Secretary of Labor Perkins was based on charges that she:

1. Favored C. I. O. over A. F. of L. 2. Appointed a former Socialist as her assistant. 3. Boasted the Administration would continue to "spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect." 4. Made no effort to stop sitdown strikes. 5. Refused to deport an alleged Communist Labor 'official.

3. "A deliberate lie" was what President Roosevelt called press reports that at a secret conference with the Senate Military Affairs committee he: 1. Called Hitler the "Mad Man of Europe." 2. Admitted negotiating a naval alliance with Britain. 3. Termed the the U. S. air force "poorly manned and equipped" 4.Placed the U. S. defense frontier in France. 5. Asked for an air fleet of 12,000 planes.

4. President Roosevelt was accused of aping Nazi economics when Administration sponsored a plan to:

1.Shell cheap " Travel Dollars" to forign tourists. 2. Barter American manufactures for Brazilian coffee. 3. Dispose of surplus cotton by dumping it abroad. 4. Institute a "Commodity Dollar." 5. Increase tax rates against corporations refusing to cooperate in the social security program.

5. Chief issue in the big April-May coal strike was: