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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Einstein believe will not move humanity forward?
(a) Technology.
(b) Hate.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Industry.

2. What does Einstein believe about all profound scientists?
(a) That they hold knowledge to a higher standard of verification than is necessary.
(b) That they cannot be trusted.
(c) That they are fooling not only themselves but the public.
(d) That they are religious, but not religiously naïve.

3. What does Einstein value in the German system of government?
(a) Its adherence to tradition.
(b) Its rigidity.
(c) Its structure.
(d) Its help for people in need or illness.

4. What does Einstein say about the struggle for human rights?
(a) It is illusionary.
(b) It is eternal.
(c) Each person has to choose his own rights.
(d) It is visionary.

5. What is one of Freud's accomplishments that Einstein praises?
(a) His desire to share openly.
(b) His system of dream interpretation.
(c) Freud's binding in the psyche of combative/destructive instincts with those of love and life.
(d) His ability to arbitrate for peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?

2. Of what does Einstein warn Fascist nations?

3. How does the individual develop and gain significance?

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

5. What do the intellectual élite lack?

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