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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) Happiness, honor and comfort.
(b) Beauty, happiness and curiousity.
(c) Kindness, beauty and truth.
(d) Truth, industry and happiness.

2. Whose saying has greatly influenced Einstein since he was quite young?
(a) Kant.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Schopenhauer.
(d) Plato.

3. What does Einstein value in the German system of government?
(a) Its structure.
(b) Its rigidity.
(c) Its adherence to tradition.
(d) Its help for people in need or illness.

4. In what field do Americans fall behind their European counterparts?
(a) Armament.
(b) Research and development.
(c) Charity.
(d) International politics.

5. Why are Americans so far removed from the Asians and Russians?
(a) Americans are intellectually far superior.
(b) Americans have no sense of traditions.
(c) Americans are intellectually far inferior.
(d) Americans live more for the future than the present.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do human beings have a thirst?

2. What is valued more in Europe than in the United States?

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

4. What does Einstein need a great deal of?

5. What does Einstein laud in "Congratulations to a Critic"?

(see the answer key)

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