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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. How are Americans foolish?
(a) To participate in a war that is not of their making.
(b) To give false assurances to their allies.
(c) To believe Hitler's promises.
(d) To be unconcerned with the rest of the world.

2. What does Einstein say about the League of Nations' Committee of Intellectual Cooperation?
(a) It may eventually prove to be valuable.
(b) It is full of hot air.
(c) Its members are facists at best.
(d) It at least embodies the principle that "something must be done."

3. How does Einstein characterize the women of America?
(a) As cyphers.
(b) As a millstone around the necks of their husbands.
(c) As rejecting advances.
(d) As intellectually inferior.

4. How does Einstein characterize people who read only newspapers and modern literature?
(a) Undereducated.
(b) Mentally frail.
(c) Wise.
(d) Myopic and snobbish.

5. For what has Einstein worked his entire life?
(a) Justice and acceptance.
(b) Justice and liberty.
(c) Liberty and truth.
(d) Truth and fairness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what is the special theory of relativity based?

2. Unless all nations band together to face aggressors, what is inevitable?

3. What does Einstein need a great deal of?

4. How does Einstein characterize his treatment when he lived in Germany earlier?

5. Once combat starts, what is meaningless?

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