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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is valued more in Europe than in the United States?
(a) Visual art and music.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Honor.
(d) Competition.

2. In what way does Einstein compare Europeans to Americans?
(a) Europeans value family more than Americans.
(b) Europeans are more gullible than Americans.
(c) Europeans are more generous than Americans.
(d) He says Europeans are more pessimistic in general than Americans.

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

4. What does Einstein say prompts efficiency and the development of technology in the United States?
(a) The intellectual prowess of Americans.
(b) The general lazy nature of Americans.
(c) The high cost of labor.
(d) The value of the individual in the United States.

5. Upon what do great men have little effect?
(a) Political events.
(b) The life of the common person.
(c) Art.
(d) Religious persuasion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has science not done?

2. Who does Einstein think is the man least likely to be duped by desires?

3. What does Einstein warn the Progressive Education Association?

4. Who does Einstein praise for her moral qualities and hardships above her intellectual accomplishments?

5. In "Paradise Lost," what does Einstein particularly rue?

(see the answer key)

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