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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pp. 28-80.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Einstein praise for her moral qualities and hardships above her intellectual accomplishments?
(a) Mother Theresa.
(b) Marie Curie.
(c) Golda Meir.
(d) Samantha Carter.

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

3. Who has created the League of Nations?
(a) Politicians.
(b) The common people.
(c) Intellectuals.
(d) Communits.

4. What has science not done?
(a) Given humankind a sense of purpose.
(b) Freed people from superstition.
(c) Given humankind the means to achieve an end to war.
(d) Freed people from religious heresy.

5. How does Einstein characterize people who read only newspapers and modern literature?
(a) Mentally frail.
(b) Undereducated.
(c) Wise.
(d) Myopic and snobbish.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does religion deal?

2. Where does Einstein present "Religion and Science"?

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

4. What should history do?

5. Whose work shatters the framework of classical mechanics and provides the basis for further research in physics?

(see the answer key)

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