National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New

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News Quiz (THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 1952 TO FEBRUARY 1953)

Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with

Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson

(Copyright 1963 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 question. 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.

2. Lenin.

3. Stalin.

4. Trotsky.

5. Stakhonov.

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

RING IN THE NEW

1. In the biggest vote in the U. S. history, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President by a popular majority of:

1. 52%.

2. 55%.

3. 59%.

4. 61%.

5. 73%.

2. Some election races were close. When the final counts were in, all but one of these were true:

1. Dennis Chavez beat Pat Hurley.

2. Henry Cabot Lodge lost to John Kennedy.

3. Soapy Williams lost to Fred M. Alger.

4. William Jenner won over Henry Schricker.

5. Christian Hexter beat Paul A Dever.

3. En route home from Korea, Ike asked for a meeting with MacArthur, who had:

1. Offered to return to active service.

2. Refused to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

3. Accepted the N.A.M. presidency

4. Hinted he had a plan to end the war.

5. Threatened to write a book about U.S. failures in the Pacific.

4. In one of his last official acts, Truman presented Congress with a $78.6 billion budget:

1. More than his administration had ever spent in one year.

2. More than half the national debt.

3. More than the U.S. ever spent in one year.

4. Less than the Republicans would like to spend.

5. Low enough to permit a tax cut while balancing the budget.

5. "War has changed its ... dimension," said Truman in his State of the Union message, referring to:

1. Britain's Abomb.

2. A huge new naval base.

3. "Antiquated" aircraft carriers.

4. A grounded flying saucer.

5. The hydrogen bomb.

6. Ike, in his State of the Union message, spoke of "a new, positive foreign policy," announced that:

1. U.S. military aid to Europe would halt at once.

2. The Seventh Fleet would stop shielding Red China.

3. All his talks would open with prayer.

4. U.S. troops would be used in Indo-China.

5. He would abide strictly by the Yalta pact.

7. Richard Nixon said that the nickname Veep:

1. Had become a badge of dishonor.

2. Was one he would welcome.

3. Would make him sound too old.

4. Made no sense in foreign tongues.