By

ALVIN C. EUKICH, Northwestern University and ELMO C. WILSON, University of Minnesota Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education

(Copyright, 1938, 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 the last term. Additional copies are available for group programs, on request to TIME'S Chicago office, 330 East 22nd Street.

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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. Many citizens resented President Roosevelt's choice of a successor to the retired Justice Van Devanter because the new appointee was (1 a Roman Catholic, 2 lacking in any previous judicial experience, 3 a New England conservative, 4 a prominent "Red-baiter," 5 a past member of the Ku Klux Klan).

2. During the special session Congress started to revise a tax bitterly attacked by business since its enactment in 1936--the (1 surtax on large incomes, 2 nuisance tax, 3 Federal sales tax, 4 inheritance tax, 5 tax on undistributed profits).

3. The filibuster in the Senate throughout the first week of the special session was staged to prevent passage of the (1 wages and hours, 2 housing, 3 farm, 4 antilynching, 5 tax-revision) bill.

4. Th>? U. S. unemployment census directed by John D. Diggers revealed that in mid-November the number of jobless was estimated at (1 twenty-five, 2 twenty, 3 seventeen, 4 eleven, 5 four) million.

5. President Roosevelt's first appointee to the U. S. Supreme Court was (1 Louis D. Brandeis, 2 Benjamin N. Cardozo, 3 Owen J. Roberts, 4 Hugo Black, 5 Willis Van Devanter).

6. In October the President appointed his son, James Roosevelt, to act as (1 contact man between himself and the heads of the Administrative agencies, 2 radio commissioner for Texas, 3 special investigator to prove that big business caused the stock market break, 4 special mediator in Labor disputes involving the rail industry, 5 U. S. Ambassador-at-Large).

7. The Manhattan Democratic organization which was badly beaten in the last New York City elections is (1 the Hibernians, 2 Union League, 3 Liberty League, 4 Jeffersonian Lodge, 5 Tammany).

8. President Roosevelt, in a special message to Congress, urged a deep cut in Federal funds already appropriated for (1 relief, 2 road building, 3 river and harbor improvements, 4 the TVA, 5 crop benefits).

9. President Roosevelt's October speech in Chicago was considered highly significant at the time because he (1 urged a balanced budget, 2 defended his recent appointee to the Supreme Court, 3 urged organization of other authorities similar to TVA, 4 announced a new U. S. foreign policy opposed to isolationism, 5 definitely stated he did not desire a third term).

10. Of the President's five-point legislative program for the special session, Congress at adjournment had enacted (1 only one measure--the crop control act, 2 none of the proposed legislation, 3 the wages and hours and crop control bills, 4 only antimonopoly legislation, 5 reorganization of the executive and regional planning bills).

11. The Republican who became a national figure because of his large scale racket-smashing and gang-busting activities as special prosecutor in New York City and who in November was elected district attorney is (1 J. Edgar Hoover, 2 Herbert H. Lehman, 3 James Walker, 4 Thomas E. Dewey, 5 Ferdinand Pecora).

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