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Ideas and Opinions Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what are Einstein's inner and outer lives based?
(a) The efforts of other men.
(b) The efforts towards understanding.
(c) The contemplation of infinity.
(d) The tenets of Christianity.

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

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

4. With what does religion deal?
(a) Everything not predetermined by heredity, sets ideals, and educates.
(b) The morality of science.
(c) The need for progress.
(d) The truthof scientific theories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Americans so far removed from the Asians and Russians?

2. Once combat starts, what is meaningless?

3. What has stood in the way of the development of technology in China and India?

4. What will force even the most reactionary scientists to cooperate?

5. Why does Einstein say individuals should not be singled out and given all-encompassing admiration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What's the main idea behind "Freedom?"

2. In To the Schoolchildren of Japan what are Einstein's hopes for Japanese children and how does that bear out?

3. What kind of thinker in humanities is Einstein and how does he act about his fame?

4. Give a brief statement of Einstein's definition of religion and science.

5. What does Einstein think of the policy of security through superior military power and what does he say this policy has done?

6. How does Einstein feel about the League of Nations and aggressors? What does he say about the fate of the world?

7. How does Einstein feel about sharing his views?

8. What is Einstein's opinion about science, religion and conflict?

9. How does Einstein feel about America in his first trip there?

10. How does Einstein view the state's function and what does he define as a state slave?

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