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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Einstein claim uncontrolled technology has created?
(a) A reliance on machines that may prove society's downfall.
(b) Massive religious unrest.
(c) An abandonment of religious principles.
(d) Massive unemployment.

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

3. Once combat starts, what is meaningless?
(a) Protection for civilians.
(b) A peaceful resolution.
(c) Finger pointing.
(d) Armaments and rules for the conduct of war.

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

5. What has made international peace a matter of life and death and an ethical imperative for everyone?
(a) Religious imperatives.
(b) Waning resources.
(c) Technology.
(d) The global market.

6. With the family eroding, society depends on the schools for what?
(a) To teach morals.
(b) To supervise activities rather than learning.
(c) Not to transfer a maximum quantity of knowledge to students, but to help them think and act independently.
(d) To instill purpose in the students.

7. What will happen if the US, England, Germany, and France threaten to boycott Japan for its aggression in China?
(a) Japan will attack those countries.
(b) China will attack Europe.
(c) Japan will yield.
(d) Japan will negotiate.

8. What happens when religious people insist the Bible is absolutely truth or when scientists render value judgments?
(a) A consensus is reached.
(b) A new field of science is born.
(c) The thesis of each side offers a synthesis.
(d) Conflicts arise.

9. How does the individual develop and gain significance?
(a) By clear thinking.
(b) By diligent striving.
(c) By having good genes.
(d) Through participation in the human community.

10. Upon what do great men have little effect?
(a) Religious persuasion.
(b) Art.
(c) The life of the common person.
(d) Political events.

11. Whose work shatters the framework of classical mechanics and provides the basis for further research in physics?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Frederick Grover.
(c) Paul Dirac.
(d) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

12. What does Einstein condemn in "Production and Work"?
(a) The overproduction of goods.
(b) The use of machines that eliminates so many jobs.
(c) The use of manual labor when machines are available.
(d) The unlimited freedom of the labor market's extraordinary progress in methods of production.

13. Who is is the "noblest man of our times" and a natural leader?
(a) J. Menniger.
(b) The engineer Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus.
(c) Mahatma Ghandi.
(d) The Dutch physicist H. A. Lorentz.

14. Why does Einstein think humans act and think?
(a) In order to evolve.
(b) Because it is a compulsion built into them genetically.
(c) To satisfy needs and avoid pain.
(d) Because they are superior to animals.

15. What is one attribute of American research that is giving them an increasing edge in the development of technology over other countries?
(a) Propriety.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Selfishness.
(d) Secrecy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einstein encourage lesser scientists to do?

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

3. What is one of Freud's accomplishments that Einstein praises?

4. What does Einstein believe will not move humanity forward?

5. What does Einstein say is very detrimental to the respect for the government?

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