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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, pp. 217-290.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though science can produce knowledge and means of action, what can it not do?
(a) Produce truth.
(b) Initiate that action.
(c) Stop thinking that arises from myth.
(d) Set goals or pass value judgments.

2. How does Einstein characterize the newly-formed State of Israel?
(a) As wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove.
(b) As just another government that falsely assumes safety is to be found in military might.
(c) As infantile in its political acumen.
(d) That it conforms as closely as possible with the ethical ideals of peace, understanding, and self-restraint.

3. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?
(a) As sacred.
(b) As a mixture of guesswork and labwork.
(c) As impossible.
(d) As tainted.

4. What has revived the sense of community, saved many lives, and provided joyous and creative work?
(a) The Jewish Ghettos.
(b) Zionism.
(c) The hope of a future.
(d) The United States opening their borders to Jewish emmigrants.

5. What does Newton introduce in his ideas?
(a) The idea of charged ions creating force fields.
(b) The idea of a force needed to overcome inertia.
(c) The idea that gravity is responding to invisible ley lines.
(d) The concept of mass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevents Jews from giving blind obeisance to any moral authority?

2. Where does Einstein present "Religion and Science"?

3. What could be organized to protect the world against nuclear power?

4. Whose work shatters the framework of classical mechanics and provides the basis for further research in physics?

5. Who does Einstein praise for her moral qualities and hardships above her intellectual accomplishments?

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