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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is is the "noblest man of our times" and a natural leader?
(a) The engineer Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus.
(b) The Dutch physicist H. A. Lorentz.
(c) Mahatma Ghandi.
(d) J. Menniger.

3. Though one man choosing to be a conscientious objector would accomplish little, what would accomplish much?
(a) All the world leaders being "conscientious objectors."
(b) Fifty thousand conscientious objectors.
(c) Einstein is not sure.
(d) All women asking their husbands, brothers and father to choose not to fight.

4. In "Paradise Lost," what does Einstein particularly rue?
(a) That nationalism has subverted the sharing of intellectual and artistic pursuits.
(b) That Eve is blamed for sin.
(c) That Milton did not go far enough in his epic poem.
(d) That he has no artistic talents.

5. Where does Einstein present "Religion and Science"?
(a) At MIT.
(b) At Harvard School Physics.
(c) At Stanford.
(d) At Princeton Theological Seminary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the intellectual élite lack?

2. What has science not done?

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

4. What should history do?

5. Why are Americans so far removed from the Asians and Russians?

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