Ideas and Opinions Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Ideas and Opinions Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pp. 1-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what ideals has Einstein lived?
(a) Kindness, beauty and truth.
(b) Happiness, honor and comfort.
(c) Truth, industry and happiness.
(d) Beauty, happiness and curiousity.

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

3. Why does Einstein say individuals should not be singled out and given all-encompassing admiration?
(a) Because there are many quiet, unobtrusive individuals as deserving as the one singled out.
(b) It will discourage true thought.
(c) It will give them too high an opinion of themselves.
(d) It will discourage others to excel.

4. What is the one good thing about the fact that America has heaped so many accolades on Einstein?
(a) It is a sign that materialism has not completely taken over the minds of Americans.
(b) That it may help them forgive Germany's excesses.
(c) That it is a sign that Americans value education.
(d) That it is a sign that America is open minded.

5. How does Einstein view Bertrand Russell?
(a) With contempt.
(b) With condescension.
(c) Admirably.
(d) With much sceptism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einstein value in the German system of government?

2. What does Einstein seem to hate above all else?

3. What governing system does Einstein think is best?

4. What is one attribute of American research that is giving them an increasing edge in the development of technology over other countries?

5. How does the individual develop and gain significance?

(see the answer key)

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