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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unless all nations band together to face aggressors, what is inevitable?
(a) Triumph of evil.
(b) Universal domination and subjugation.
(c) Universal anarchy and terror.
(d) Capitulation of pacific nations.

2. What do the intellectual élite lack?
(a) The foresight to make practical decisions.
(b) The cohesion to attack contemporary problems.
(c) The ability to understand basic causes.
(d) Compassion for those of lesser ilk.

3. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?
(a) As impossible.
(b) As tainted.
(c) As a mixture of guesswork and labwork.
(d) As sacred.

4. What three topics are addressed in Part 1?
(a) Freedom, religion, and education.
(b) Government, education and religion.
(c) Science, religion, and relationships.
(d) Freedom, love, government.

5. Though science can produce knowledge and means of action, what can it not do?
(a) Initiate that action.
(b) Stop thinking that arises from myth.
(c) Produce truth.
(d) Set goals or pass value judgments.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What should history do?

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

4. How does Einstein characterize the House Un-American Activities Committee?

5. When are people happiest?

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