NATIONAL AFFAIRS,FOREIGN NEWS,THE THEATRE OF WAR,BUSINESS & FINANCE,PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS,SCIENCE AND MEDICINE,L: U. S. FOREIGN RELATIONS

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, 1940, by Time Inc.)

EXPLANATION

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DIRECTIONS

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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. Called by President Roosevelt “the most important defense action since the Louisiana Purchase of 1803” was:
1. The Overton Act to fingerprint aliens.
2. The swap with Britain of 50 old U. S. destroyers for Atlantic naval bases.
3. The fortification of Guam.
4. The Rush Act to confiscate U. S. plants in war time.
5. U. S. purchase of Rolls-Royce plane patents.

2. Facing the possibility of a quick British defeat, the U. S. in August:
1. Fortified Bermuda.
2. Sent Sumner Welles abroad on an appeasement mission.
3. Transferred the battle fleet to the Atlantic.
4. Started negotiations with Canada for military cooperation.
5. Began fortifying the Canadian border.

3. Among the islands where Britain will lease air or naval bases to the U. S. are:
1. St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Thomas, Bermuda, Newfoundland.
2. Trinidad, Antigua, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Jamaica.
3. Trinidad, Martinique, Bermuda, Jamaica, Newfoundland.
4. Cocos, Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbadoes.
5. Newfoundland, Guantanamo, Great Barrier Reef, Trinidad, Bahamas.

4. Prompt reprisal for Japan’s invasion of Indo-China came when the U. S.:
1. Embargoed scrap iron and steel exports to Japan.
2. Threatened war if Japan moved further in Indo-China.
3. Sent the whole U. S. Navy to the Pacific.
4. Suddenly cut off all U. S. exports to Japan.
5. Invited China to a war conference.

5. As Japan threatened more Far Eastern colonies, Secretary Hull:
1. Put off Philippine independence—promised this January—until 1945.
2. Officially urged U. S. citizens to leave the Orient.
3. Urged Congress to rush Guam fortifications.
4. Sent 6 U. S. destroyers into the East China Sea.
5. Publicly consulted J. Edgar Hoover on the 5th Column problem in Hawaii.

6. At the Havana conference, Latin-American nations granted the U. S. permission to:
1. Adopt compulsory military training.
2. Supervise all future Pan-American elections.
3. Close the Panama Canal if necessary.
4. Occupy French and British New World possessions.
5. Suppress German-operated airlines in the New World.

7. Under the much-discussed “cartel” plan for strengthening U. S. ties with Latin America:
1. A single currency would be adopted for Inter-American commerce.
2. Immigration bars among the nations would end.
3. Certain nations would be awarded monopolies.
4. All American commerce with Hitler would be banned.
5. U. S. would finance Latin-American surpluses.

8. A three-power pact of political, economic and military cooperation apparently aimed at the U. S. was signed late in September by:
1. Japan, Germany, Italy.
2. France, Germany, Italy.
3. Germany, Italy, Spain.
4. Japan, Russia, China.
5. Germany, Italy, Russia.

U. S. PREPAREDNESS

9. Most hard-fought, precedent-shattering legislation before Congress this summer was the Burke-Wadsworth bill, which provides for:
1. A two-ocean navy.
2. Loans and credits to Britain.
3. Peacetime military conscription.
4. Fortifying the Canadian border.
5. Repeal of the Cash and Carry neutrality law.

10. A year’s intensive training for about 217,000 men—the first to be called in the rearmament program—was assured when on August 15 Congress voted to:
1. Let the President call out the National Guard.
2. Transfer all CCC boys to the Army.
3. Draft men for military training.
4. Lengthen army enlistment term to three years.
5. Arm American Legionnaires.

11. National Defense plans definitely provide for all but one of the following:
1. Increasing the pay of the U. S. army.
2. Forbidding transfer of draftees to foreign shores.
3. Registering male citizens between 21 and 36.
4. Conscripting war industries if necessary.
5. Having two million men in the Army by January.

12. The Naval Bill passed July 11:
1. Authorizes the sale of overage destroyers to Britain.
2. Recognizes the superiority of planes over battleships.
3. Establishes new naval bases in Guam, Manila, and Trinidad.
4. Authorizes a two-ocean navy.
5. Calls for a naval alliance with the British fleet.

13. Meanwhile, discovery of an air base and radio station on Big Diomede Island caused the government to look closer to the defense of:
1. The Philippines.
2. Alaska.
3. Puerto Rico.
4. The Panama Canal.
5. Greenland.

14. Leading U. S. exponent of appeasing Nazi Germany is:
1. General Pershing.
2. Felix Frankfurter.
3. Colonel Lindbergh.
4. William Randolph Hearst.
5. Cordell Hull.

15. As a result of speedup, Secretary Knox announced America may have a two-ocean navy by:
1. 1944.
2. 1946.
3. 1942.
4. 1941.
5. 1947.

16. Dramatic evidence of the woeful condition of U. S. defense was:
1. Twelve crashes by army pilots in one week.
2. Disclosure that four newest U. S. battleships had too thin armor plate.
3. Use of wooden guns and trucks marked “tank” in August army games.
4. Bad morale in August army games.
5. Admission by Secretary Knox that one end of the Panama Canal had no anti-aircraft guns.

17. Between the invasion of France and October 1, Congress voted for defense about:
1. One billion dollars.
2. Five billion dollars.
3. Ten billion dollars.
4. Twenty billion dollars.
5. Thirty billion dollars.

18. And to attract capital to the rearmament program, the President asked Congress to:
1. Waive all income taxes on arms profits.
2. Permit outlays for defense to be written off at 20% a year for tax purposes.
3. Permit unlimited profits on arms manufacture.
4. Match investments dollar for dollar.
5. Permit unlicensed manufacture of arms.

THE COMING ELECTION

19. Willkie’s victory on the sixth ballot at the Republican convention was widely hailed as a victory of:
1. Southern party leaders over those of the North.
2. “Power interests” over Republican rank and file.
3. The party bosses over the progressives.
4. The press over the radio.
5. The people over machine politics.

20. Though he said plenty in his acceptance speech, Willkie did not say that:
1. Roosevelt has courted a war for which the country is unprepared. 2. He would like to debate Roosevelt.
3. He was a liberal Democrat until just a few years ago.
4. He favors old age pensions and unemployment insurance.
5. Military conscription is undemocratic and unnecessary in peacetime.

21. Candidates Willkie and Roosevelt differ widely in their attitudes toward all but one of the following:
1. Relations of government and business.
2. The “Indispensable Man.”
3. Methods of relieving unemployment.
4. The Administration’s record on preparedness.
5. Aid to Britain.

22. Among important former New Dealers who bolted to Willkie after President Roosevelt’s nomination by acclamation were:
1. Carter Glass and Rush Holt.
2. Fiorello LaGuardia and Burton K. Wheeler.
3. Felix Frankfurter and Louis Johnson.
4. Lewis Douglas and John Hanes.
5. Thomas Corcoran and Joseph P. Kennedy.

23. Jim Farley’s resignation was generally interpreted as a protest against:
1. The President’s foreign policy.
2. The Third Term.
3. Politics in relief.
4. The Hatch clean politics Act.
5. The Party’s failure to give him the Vice-Presidential nomination.

24. The Hatch “clean politics” law which restricts individual political contributions to $5,000 also prohibits:
1. Political activity by State and city employes paid partly with Federal funds.
2. Muckraking into the past beyond 5 years ago.
3. Electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place.
4. Expenditure by any Party of over $2,000,000 in a year.
5. Political activity by any government employes.

25. President Roosevelt’s cabinet appointments last summer included all but one of the following:
1. Stimson for Woodring (War).
2. Jackson for Murphy (Attorney-General).
3. Wickard for Wallace (Agriculture).
4. Walker for Farley (Postmaster General).
5. Knox for Edison (Navy).

26. All but one of the following are highlights of the first six weeks of Wendell Willkie’s campaign tour:
1. At Los Angeles he was hailed by one of the largest political gatherings in history.
2. At San Francisco he said Roosevelt dynamited the 1933 London Economic Conference.
3. At Portland, Ore. he endorsed Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams.
4. At Pontiac, Mich. he was hit by a ripe tomato.
5. At Coffeyville he wrote “No Third Term—Wendell Willkie.”

27. Meanwhile, F.D.R. busied himself in all but one of these ways:
1. By visiting army camps, navy yards, arsenals, airplane factories.
2. By telling an audience in Philadelphia that George Washington approved of third terms.
3. By reading to his press conference a dispatch from Rome saying the Axis wanted him defeated.
4. By delivering “nonpolitical” speeches.
5. By insisting that labor’s gains would be preserved under the national defense program.

LABOR

28. Back into the A. F. of L. after an absence of more than four years went David Dubinsky’s powerful:
1. International Ladies Garment Workers.
2. United Textile Workers.
3. Office Workers Union.
4. Maritime Workers.
5. Brotherhood of Railway Engineers.

29. While Green and Lewis still sulked, C.I.O. and A.F. of L. sub-chieftains worked smoothly together under the Defense Commission’s Labor Coordinator:
1. Frances Perkins.
2. Daniel J. Tobin.
3. David Dubinsky.
4. Tom Girdler.
5. Sidney Hillman.

30. Many U. S. Reds were surprised and shocked when the Communist newspaper, The Daily Worker, was sold to:
1. J. P. Morgan.
2. Leon Trotsky’s New York representative.
3. The German-American Bund.
4. Rabbi Stephen A. Wise.
5. Three nice old New England ladies.

FOREIGN NEWS

THE FALL OF FRANCE

31. Dramatic Adolf Hitler officially received the French surrender in:
1. The village where Marshal Foch was buried.
2. Railroad car where Foch received German surrender in 1918.
3. Fontainebleau, where Napoleon abdicated in 1814.
4. Versailles, where German Empire began in 1871.
5. Dugout where he was wounded in World War I.

32. To gain this Armistice, France had to let Germany occupy:
1. Nothing but Alsace-Lorraine. 2. A strip of territory along the English Channel.
3. All French territory in Europe.
4. The entire northern half of the country.
5. Syria, French Somaliland, Morocco.

33. After the Armistice, the French Government, headed by Marshal Henri Pétain, moved:
1. To Geneva.
2. To Lyons.
3. To Biarritz.
4. Back to Paris.
5. To Vichy.

34. There the Senate and Chamber of Deputies voted themselves out of existence after:
1. Asking Hitler to protect them from British wrath.
2. Urging the French colonies to fight on.
3. First smuggling out $600,000,000 in gold.
4. Turning the Navy over to Winston Churchill.
5. Abolishing the Republican Constitution in favor of a totalitarian state.

35. Among the leaders France is trying for their part in the defeat are:
1. Paul Reynaud, Pierre Laval, Léon Blum.
2. Henri Philippe Pétain, Léon Blum, Maurice Gamelin.
3. Léon Blum, Paul Reynaud, Edouard Daladier.
4. Ettienne R. Laudin, Georges Bonnet, Edouard Daladier.
5. Charles de Gaulle, Maxime Weygand, Léon Blum.

36. Most unpredictable tragedy of World War II was the Battle of Oran in which:

1. Britain destroyed the pride of the French fleet.
2. Maginot Line fortresses fell to flame throwers.
3. Italy stabbed France in the back.
4. The backbone of the French army was broken by German Panzer divisions.
5. General Corap’s French army deserted to Nazis.

37. Encouraged by seeming failure of German attacks on Britain, French resistance flared again when:
1. Nazis began playing up to the French girls.
2. Italy demanded Corsica, Tunisia, Savoy.
3. Nazis appropriated France’s dwindling food reserve.
4. Several important French colonies reentered the war against Germany.
5. The British began bombing French cities.

38. But both “Free Frenchmen” and British suffered a serious setback in September when:
1. The Vichy government invaded free Indo-China.
2. A long-planned revolution in Provence was quickly put down.
3. General de Gaulle led an attack against Dakar, French West Africa, and was repulsed.
4. Part of the free French fleet was bottled up in the Adriatic by Italy.
5. General Franco declared war against Britain.

BATTLE OF BRITAIN

39. After the defeat of France, Germany attacked Britain by all but one of the following means:
1. Attacking convoys by air and sea.
2. Shelling from the French coast.
3. Sending over waves of bombers.
4. Landing an army in parachutes.
5. Declaring a blockade in all the surrounding waters.

40. Britain countered in all but one of these ways:
1. Heavy shelling of Wilhelmshaven by cruisers.
2. Repeated bombings in the Industrial Ruhr.
3. Dropping inflammable calling cards on Germany.
4. Destroying barges massed at Channel ports.
5. Raiding south as far as Milan and Turin.

41. When the battle of Britain began, most experts thought Hitler’s numerical superiority in the air was:
1. 2 to 1.
2. Very small.
3. 4 to 1.
4. Just propaganda.
5. 10 to 1.

42. But the R.A.F. claimed all but one of these advantages:
1. It is fighting near its own bases.
2. Its shot down pilots can fight another day.
3. Its planes are more maneuverable.
4. It has better aviation gasoline.
5. It uses the secret U. S. bombsight.

43. Basic income tax rate in England was raised last summer to:
1. 42½%
2. 4%
3. 8%
4. 15%
5. 25%

44. The British are using a balloon barrage to:
1. Watch for approaching planes.
2. Spread poison gas too high to hurt civilians.
3. Suspend cables to entangle invading flyers.
4. Lay down smoke screens around harbors.
5. Bring cannons within range of high bombers.

45. When Berlin was bombed, Germans alibied that the R.A.F.:
1. Was guided by Berlin Fifth Columnists.
2. Was muffling its propellers.
3. Was not expected that night.
4. Used gliders instead of planes.
5. Used “invisible varnish” on its bombers.

46. As of October 1, best evidence that the attack on Britain was falling far short of expectations was that:
1. Hitler had moved his headquarters to Dunkirk.
2. Britain reduced its U. S. armament orders.
3. Officers high in the Luftwaffe were purged.
4. British food rations were increased.
5. Convoys were still steaming daily past Dover.

ITALY

47. Italy’s navy, four months after entering war:
1. Had bottled up the British in Alexandria.
2. Was still afraid to engage any major unit of the British Mediterranean fleet.
3. Had saved the French fleet from destruction.
4. Had captured Malta.
5. Had forced the Dardanelles.

48. For the first time in 100 years, a European army captured a British colony when the Italians conquered British:
1. Somaliland.
2. Egypt.
3. Tanganyika.
4. South Africa.
5. Uganda.

49. Though Fascists drove 50 miles across her border, no declaration of war on Italy came from:
1. Egypt.
2. Tunisia.
3. Turkey.
4. Greece.
5. Yugoslavia.

50. Immediately after Axis conferences with Ramon Serrano Suner, Franco’s brother-in-law, Spain:
1. Still remained nonbelligerent but pro-Axis.
2. Opened attacks on Gibraltar.
3. Let 50,000 Italians land at Malaga.
4. Returned 3,000 refugees to Vichy for trial.
5. Closed her ports to all British ships.

EASTERN EUROPE

51. Just when everybody thought the defeat of France had freed Hitler’s hands for the attack on Britain, he was forced to turn his attention elsewhere by:
1. Otto Strasser’s revolutionary Black Shirts.
2. Renewed fighting in northern Norway.
3. Turkey’s decision to close the Dardanelles.
4. Stalin’s westward move.
5. Mussolini’s demand for help against Africa.

52. With hardly a shot, Russia in the last five months won all but one of the following:
1. Bessarabia.
2. Estonia.
3. Lithuania.
4. Latvia.
5. Dobruja.

53. The Rumanian provinces wholly or partly divided among Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, were:
1. Transylvania, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Albania.
2. Transylvania, Bukovina, Wallachia, Moldavia. 3. Rumelia, Slovakia, Bessarabia, Servia.
4. Transylvania, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Dobruja.
5. Bessarabia, Dobruja, Latvia, Estonia.

54. Rumania’s independence seemed ended October 7th when:
1. Nazi troops moved in to “protect” the oil fields.
2. Gauleiter Antonescu deposed King Michael.
3. Russia and Germany forced Counselors on Bucharest.
4. King Carol agreed to reduce the army to 10,000.
5. Queen Marie asked Germany’s protection.

OTHER FOREIGN

55. Principal effect of an attack on Gibraltar from Spain will be to:
1. Force the British Navy blockading the Western Mediterranean to operate from distant bases.
2. Cut Britain’s lifeline to India.
3. Bottle up the British Mediterranean fleet.
4. Disturb Italo-German relations.
5. Enable the Axis Powers to invade Africa.

56. In August Britain promised India:
1. Not to conscript Indians into the British army.
2. That the war would not be carried to India.
3. Post-war partnership in the British Commonwealth.
4. Freedom by January, 1941.
5. Not to interfere in the forthcoming elections.

57. First monarch forced to abdicate by the war is:
1. Haakon of Norway.
2. Wilhelmina of Holland.
3. Leopold of Belgium.
4. Carol of Rumania.
5. Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

58. Japan’s diplomatic blackmail finally forced Britain to:
1. Stop loans to China.
2. Recognize her claim to French Indo-China.
3. Temporarily close the Burma Road.
4. Send the Warspite to Shanghai.
5. Recognize Japan’s role in North China.

59. Chungking, Chinese capital, faced a new danger when:
1. Japan flanked it by invading Indo-China.
2. Its supplies from Hong-Kong were cut off.
3. Bubonic plague ravaged its population.
4. The Japanese finally captured heights above city.
5. An earthquake cut off its water.

60. Current Mexican threat of revolution grew out of:
1. Opposition to Pres. Cardenas’ pro-Nazi policy.
2. Failure to distribute land to the peons.
3. Spanish refugees trying to get Mexico into war.
4. A sudden breach in the ranks of Labor.
5. Refusal of Almazan followers to accept defeat.

BUSINESS & FINANCE

71. U. S. gold (about 60% of world supply in January, 1940) has:
1. Fallen to 58% with Britain’s withdrawals.
2. Fallen sharply because of huge exports to South America.
3. Risen to 75% as the Allies increased shipments.
4. Risen .4% since the U. S. cut its buying price.
5. Remained static since U. S. sterilized gold imports.

72. At summer’s end, the revised Federal Reserve Board Index showed U. S. business was producing at a level:
1. Just slightly over depression low.
2. Slightly below 1929.
3. Below 1939.
4. Above 1929.
5. Equal to a year ago.

73. First U. S. industry branded “defense bottleneck” was:
1. Chemicals.
2. Railroads.
3. Textiles.
4. Petroleum.
5. Machine tools.

74. The RFC in July created two $5,000,000 corporations to build up U. S. reserves of sadly lacking:
1. Zinc & manganese.
2. Rubber & chromium.
3. Tin & manganese.
4. Magnesium & zinc.
5. Rubber & tin.

75. In August the Federal Reserve Board revised its production index to give more weight to new industries like:
1. Plastics & glass.
2. Building & television.
3. Rayon & aircraft.
4. Nylon & automobiles.
5. Meat packing & synthetic rubber.

76. After the fall of France a $1,000,000,000 U. S. industry moved swiftly to:
1. Develop new export markets in French colonies.
2. Make California wines more popular than French.
3. Get munitions contracts French could not fill.
4. Make America the fashion center of the world.
5. Bring all famous French film directors to U. S.

77. This summer three new targets of Thurman Arnold’s antimonopoly drive were:
1. Pullman, Inc., the tobacco & spectacle industries.
2. Pan-American Airways, the Aluminum Co. and General Motors.
3. Bethlehem Steel, Philco & the cloak & suit trade.
4. New York Stock Exchange, American Can, the oil industry.
5. Garand Rifle Co., Standard Brands, the movies.

78. At the end of first year of World War II commodity prices had:
1. Fallen slightly below the pre-war level.
2. Fluctuated hardly at all.
3. Settled down about 8% above pre-war level.
4. Soared to 60% above pre-war level.
5. Gone up steadily to an all-time high.

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

89. Lina Medina of Peru, mother of a 15-month-old baby, came to this country to convince doctors she:
1. Had cured her baby’s cancer by ancient Inca remedy.
2. Is hale and hearty despite upside down stomach.
3. Has supernatural powers.
4. Had been raised by a rhesus monkey.
5. Is only 6 years old.

90. Ameripol, butadiene, neoprene are new synthetics by which U. S. hopes to free itself from dependence on imported:
1. Rubber.
2. Manganese.
3. Tin.
4. Wool.
5. Sugar.

91. Color-blind men are now demanded as:
1. Soldiers in Alaska, as they are immune to snowblindness.
2. Camouflage artists.
3. Aeronautical detectors of camouflage.
4. Anti-aircraft marksmen, as they are not affected by cloudy days.
5. Night bombers, as searchlights do not blind them.

92. Adopted by British forces & under consideration by U. S. Army & Navy is a process announced by Philadelphia physicians for:
1. Curing concussion deafness with sulfanilamide.
2. Preventing influenza with sulfanilamide.
3. Preserving powdered blood for transfusions.
4. Curing shell-shocked patients with music.
5. Preventing typhoid epidemics with heavy water.

93. To prevent a repetition of World War I’s epidemic among soldiers, British doctors have found nicotinic acid a new and quick cure for:
1. Chronic alcoholism.
2. Trench mouth.
3. Influenza.
4. Shingles.
5. Cooties.

94. In their rush to treat wounded at Dunkirk, British surgeons obtained strikingly successful but foul-smelling results from:
1. Sealing raw cleansed wound in a plaster cast.
2. Pouring turpentine over the raw wound.
3. Old-fashioned suturing and splinting.
4. Injecting iron & arsenic.
5. Herb packs.

95. The secret Bachite coating process may make cheap black plate iron important to National Defense as an abundant and rust-resistant substitute for ordinary uses of:
1. Rubber.
2. Aluminum.
3. Copper.
4. Tin.
5. Lead.

LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

96. Hailed as one of America’s best is symphonic orchestra created by Leopold Stokowski from:
1. Young American boys and girls.
2. Persons without formal musical training.
3. Southern Negroes.
4. European refugees.
5. Convicts.

97. Poet and Librarian of Congress MacLeish recently blamed himself & other U. S. writers for:
1. Aping British novelists of the Hardy school.
2. Not having written a great American saga.
3. “Glorifying filth” in American literature.
4. Making cynical pacifists of today’s undergraduates.
5. Not adopting Gertrude Stein’s style.

98. The Republican Convention opened with the most popular of the new songs currently reflecting American surge of patriotism, W.P.A.-written:
1. Ballad for Americans.
2. God Bless America.
3. I Am an American.
4. Our Side of the Ocean.
5. And They Lynched Him on a Tree.

99. Leading phonograph record makers startled the industry in August by:
1. Withdrawing all records by German composers.
2. Cutting in two the price of classical records.
3. Calling “Ballad for Americans” Red propaganda.
4. Turning thumbs down on swing music.
5. Putting an $18 radio-phonograph on the market.

100. Van Wyck Brooks’ second volume on New England culture is:
1. The Tragic Era.
2. The Robber Barons.
3. The Last Stronghold.
4. Its Towers Gone to Seed.
5. New England : Indian Summer.

101. “The Beloved Returns,” based on an episode in the life of Goethe, is:
1. A new novel by Thomas Mann.
2. A movie with Paul Muni now in production.
3. An anti-war play by Robert Sherwood.
4. A fabulous mural painted for Hitler’s study.
5. A bedroom farce doing a big business in London.

102. Charlie Chaplin’s long-awaited “production No. 6” features the little comedian in the role of:
1. Lemuel Gulliver.
2. Baron Munchausen.
3. Hitler.
4. Don Quixote.
5. A Vice-President of the U. S. named Throttlebottom.

103. Possible forerunners of a torrent of anti-Nazi films are three recent motion pictures:
1. The Mortal Storm; The Man I Married; Pastor Hall.
2. Waterloo Bridge; Fight for Life; Air Death.
3. Foreign Correspondent; To the Victor; Our Town.
4. Grey Legions ; Sky Hawks ; They Drive by Night.
5. After Bismarck; The Secret Weapon; End of a Day.

104. THE TREE OF LIBERTY, a best selling novel, is the basis of Hollywood’s latest film on the American Revolution:
1. Adam Bede.
2. The Howards of Virginia.
3. Independence Hall.
4. Patrick Henry.
5. The Boston Tea Party.

105. In August CBS made front page news when it said by January 1 it expects to be:
1. Broadcasting television in full color.
2. Televising to the U. S. the war in Europe.
3. Selling a television set at $75.
4. The largest radio network in the world.
5. Taken over by the government for propaganda purposes.