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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does a country enslave its citizens?
(a) Through economic deprivation.
(b) Through forced military service.
(c) Through engendering mistrust amongst their citizens.
(d) Through the rationing of basic necessities.

4. By what ideals has Einstein lived?
(a) Truth, industry and happiness.
(b) Happiness, honor and comfort.
(c) Kindness, beauty and truth.
(d) Beauty, happiness and curiousity.

5. What does Einstein condemn in "Production and Work"?
(a) The use of machines that eliminates so many jobs.
(b) The unlimited freedom of the labor market's extraordinary progress in methods of production.
(c) The use of manual labor when machines are available.
(d) The overproduction of goods.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?

2. Though the scientific method can teach how facts relate and condition one another, what can it not do?

3. What is valued more in Europe than in the United States?

4. What three topics are addressed in Part 1?

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

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