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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has made international peace a matter of life and death and an ethical imperative for everyone?
(a) The global market.
(b) Waning resources.
(c) Religious imperatives.
(d) Technology.

2. Though the scientific method can teach how facts relate and condition one another, what can it not do?
(a) Determine the existence of God.
(b) Determine absolute truth.
(c) Deduce the goal of human aspirations.
(d) Teach compassion.

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

4. What should history do?
(a) Influence the future.
(b) Interpret the progress in civilization rather than calculating power and success.
(c) Teach the future.
(d) Be forgotten.

5. For what do human beings have a thirst?
(a) Assured knowledge.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Deliberate action.
(d) Absolute conviction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must disarmament and joint security occur all at once or not at all?

2. Into how many parts is "Religion and Science" divided?

3. What do the intellectual élite lack?

4. Why does Einstein say individuals should not be singled out and given all-encompassing admiration?

5. In what field do Americans fall behind their European counterparts?

(see the answer key)

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