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

2. What puzzles Einstein about one aspect of the American economy?
(a) The lack of a savings plan.
(b) The fact that paper money is not backed by gold and silver.
(c) That the cost of labor is so high in comparison to goods produced.
(d) The high tariffs on foreign goods.

3. Who is is the "noblest man of our times" and a natural leader?
(a) The Dutch physicist H. A. Lorentz.
(b) Mahatma Ghandi.
(c) J. Menniger.
(d) The engineer Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus.

4. What does Einstein believe about all profound scientists?
(a) That they cannot be trusted.
(b) That they are religious, but not religiously naïve.
(c) That they hold knowledge to a higher standard of verification than is necessary.
(d) That they are fooling not only themselves but the public.

5. Whose work shatters the framework of classical mechanics and provides the basis for further research in physics?
(a) Frederick Grover.
(b) Paul Dirac.
(c) Max Planck.
(d) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How should readers approach the person in question #32?

2. Though science can produce knowledge and means of action, what can it not do?

3. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?

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

5. What three topics are addressed in Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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