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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. What does Einstein admire about Mahatma Ghandi?
(a) His intellect.
(b) The way he treated his wife.
(c) His vegetarian diet.
(d) His method of non-cooperation.

2. What does Einstein seem to hate above all else?
(a) Laziness.
(b) War.
(c) Famine.
(d) Intellectual vapidity.

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

4. "On Academic Freedom" (1931) defends whom?
(a) Hitler.
(b) E. J. Gumbel.
(c) Kant.
(d) Schoenberger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Einstein say are now the ones who advocate international thought?

2. What does Einstein need a great deal of?

3. Who has created the League of Nations?

4. What puzzles Einstein about one aspect of the American economy?

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

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