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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Einstein characterize the women of America?
(a) As rejecting advances.
(b) As a millstone around the necks of their husbands.
(c) As cyphers.
(d) As intellectually inferior.

2. Of what does Einstein warn Fascist nations?
(a) Being to provencial.
(b) Seeking to dominate weaker neighbors.
(c) Seeking to overpopulate.
(d) Having too much pride in genetic heritage.

3. What could be organized to protect the world against nuclear power?
(a) A strong "supranational" organization,
(b) Instilling an abhorrence of war in humankind.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A defensive weapon that would render fusion or fission impossible.

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

5. What does Einstein claim uncontrolled technology has created?
(a) Massive religious unrest.
(b) A reliance on machines that may prove society's downfall.
(c) An abandonment of religious principles.
(d) Massive unemployment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einstein laud in "Congratulations to a Critic"?

2. By what ideals has Einstein lived?

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

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

5. How does the individual develop and gain significance?

(see the answer key)

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