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

2. Why does Einstein say individuals should not be singled out and given all-encompassing admiration?
(a) It will discourage others to excel.
(b) Because there are many quiet, unobtrusive individuals as deserving as the one singled out.
(c) It will discourage true thought.
(d) It will give them too high an opinion of themselves.

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

4. What has stood in the way of the development of technology in China and India?
(a) Industrial people.
(b) Low technological ability.
(c) Dense population.
(d) Religious intolerance.

5. What is one attribute of American research that is giving them an increasing edge in the development of technology over other countries?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Propriety.
(d) Cooperation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einstein say about the League of Nations' Committee of Intellectual Cooperation?

2. By what ideals has Einstein lived?

3. With what does religion deal?

4. How could unilateral disarmament be negotiated?

5. How does Einstein characterize the women of America?

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