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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What has too much influence on public thought?
(a) The press.
(b) The educational system.
(c) The government.
(d) The church.
2. What does Einstein say is very detrimental to the respect for the government?
(a) Passing unenforceable laws.
(b) Restricting voting rights.
(c) Engaging in unwinnable wars.
(d) Giving the vote to women.
3. What has science not done?
(a) Given humankind the means to achieve an end to war.
(b) Freed people from superstition.
(c) Freed people from religious heresy.
(d) Given humankind a sense of purpose.
4. "On Academic Freedom" (1931) defends whom?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Kant.
(c) E. J. Gumbel.
(d) Schoenberger.
5. What does Einstein encourage lesser scientists to do?
(a) Not be isolationist.
(b) To work alone and not waste the time of geniuses.
(c) To help those scientist on the edge of big break throughs.
(d) To work diligently even if its on a very small discovery.
6. What has made international peace a matter of life and death and an ethical imperative for everyone?
(a) Waning resources.
(b) Religious imperatives.
(c) The global market.
(d) Technology.
7. How does Einstein characterize the women of America?
(a) As a millstone around the necks of their husbands.
(b) As cyphers.
(c) As rejecting advances.
(d) As intellectually inferior.
8. Though the scientific method can teach how facts relate and condition one another, what can it not do?
(a) Teach compassion.
(b) Determine the existence of God.
(c) Deduce the goal of human aspirations.
(d) Determine absolute truth.
9. Why must disarmament and joint security occur all at once or not at all?
(a) Because someone will inevitably double cross the others.
(b) Because as long as war is possible, everyone wants to be in a position to win.
(c) Because those countries still armed will not do what they say once others disarm.
(d) Because peace is unenforcable if some countries are still armed.
10. Who is is the "noblest man of our times" and a natural leader?
(a) The Dutch physicist H. A. Lorentz.
(b) The engineer Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus.
(c) J. Menniger.
(d) Mahatma Ghandi.
11. Once combat starts, what is meaningless?
(a) Armaments and rules for the conduct of war.
(b) Protection for civilians.
(c) A peaceful resolution.
(d) Finger pointing.
12. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?
(a) As a mixture of guesswork and labwork.
(b) As tainted.
(c) As impossible.
(d) As sacred.
13. What does Einstein believe will not move humanity forward?
(a) Technology.
(b) Industry.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Hate.
14. 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.
15. How does a country enslave its citizens?
(a) Through forced military service.
(b) Through the rationing of basic necessities.
(c) Through engendering mistrust amongst their citizens.
(d) Through economic deprivation.
Short Answer Questions
1. What sort of life does Einstein believe is good for all human beings?
2. How does Einstein characterize the House Un-American Activities Committee?
3. For what do human beings have a thirst?
4. In what year is "Religion and Science" written?
5. With the family eroding, society depends on the schools for what?
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