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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year is "Religion and Science" written?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1939.

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

3. What has too much influence on public thought?
(a) The press.
(b) The church.
(c) The educational system.
(d) The government.

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

5. How does Einstein characterize the House Un-American Activities Committee?
(a) As a group of men doing a necessary cleansing.
(b) As the lapdog of facism.
(c) With the highest respect.
(d) As a modern inquisitional institution.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does religion deal?

2. Why must disarmament and joint security occur all at once or not at all?

3. Though one man choosing to be a conscientious objector would accomplish little, what would accomplish much?

4. Upon what are Einstein's inner and outer lives based?

5. What does Einstein encourage lesser scientists to do?

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