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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book, WAR AGAIN TO-MORROW, which Einstein recommended, was written by whom?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) Heinrich Heine.
(c) Ludwig Bauer.
(d) Hermann Hesse.

2. What is the silently accepted motto of people having no civil courage?
(a) "Leave it alone and don't speak of it."
(b) "What's the use?"
(c) "It will be worked out somehow."
(d) "War in inevitable."

3. Einstein wrote an article in honor of which birthday of Arnold Berliner's ?
(a) the sixtieth
(b) the seventieth
(c) the eightieth
(d) the ninetieth

4. Who was it who spoke the following words: "It's no use, Gentlemen, science is and remains international."
(a) Dr. Katzenstein.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Emil Fischer.
(d) Dr. Solf.

5. What did Einstein deem the most important thing in helping humanity forward?
(a) scientific advancements.
(b) money and economic well-being.
(c) the example of great and pure characters.
(d) school education.

6. What did Einstein feel used to unite Europe as late as the 17th century?
(a) religion.
(b) a common ideal and use of the Latin language.
(c) the physical proximity of the European countries.
(d) politics.

7. Who, in this materialistic world, are the most profoundly religious people according to Einstein?
(a) welfare workers.
(b) serious scientific workers.
(c) philanthropists.
(d) priests and ministers.

8. To which famous psychologist did Einstein write?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Wilhelm Wundt.
(d) William James.

9. How did Einstein plan to abolish unemployment?
(a) lower salaries.
(b) legally reduce the number of working hours per week.
(c) build more factories.
(d) invent new jobs.

10. What is Einstein's political ideal?
(a) democracy
(b) communism
(c) socialism
(d) egalitarianism

11. What did Einstein state was the death of all sound work?
(a) greed and laziness.
(b) opportunism.
(c) the gold standard.
(d) bureaucracy.

12. What evoked religious notions in primitive man according to Einstein?
(a) want.
(b) love.
(c) superstition.
(d) fear.

13. To whom did Einstein address a farewell letter stating he would no longer go to Geneva nor be a member of the Commission?
(a) Lucien Brun, French Secretary of the League of Nations
(b) Dufour-Feronce, German Secretary of the League of Nations
(c) William Sands, English Secretary of the League of Nations
(d) Maurice LeGrand, Swiss Secretary of the League of Nations

14. What was the problem forced on Einstein's Berlin surgeon friend out of the necessities of his practice?
(a) maintaining harmony among the medical staff.
(b) transplantation of tendons, a solution to lost muscles.
(c) the improvement of anesthesiology.
(d) maintaining sanitary conditions during surgery.

15. To what subject did Katzenstein devote his scientific energies during the last 10 years of his life?
(a) performing successful appendectomies.
(b) the antagonism of the tissues.
(c) the transplanting of organs.
(d) eye surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Einstein feel had to be gradually abolished as the political organization of Europe was strengthened?

2. What did H.A. Lorentz devote himself to?

3. How did Einstein view property, outward success and luxury?

4. Where did Einstein and his best friend hold long conversations for 10 years or more during his stay in Berlin?

5. What did Einstein feel couldn't be done by gradual steps?

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