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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, pp. 290-377.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With the family eroding, society depends on the schools for what?
(a) To teach morals.
(b) Not to transfer a maximum quantity of knowledge to students, but to help them think and act independently.
(c) To supervise activities rather than learning.
(d) To instill purpose in the students.

2. What do physicists resign themselves to accepting new field concepts as?
(a) A muddying of the almost-clear waters of quantum physics.
(b) False arguments for interrelated theories of creation.
(c) Irreducible fundamentals.
(d) Lost hope for a quick proof of the expansion theory.

3. How does the inertia of a given body grow?
(a) Through the exertion of the time/space continuum.
(b) As more "ponderable masses" come into proximity.
(c) With an increase in gravitational pull.
(d) By expanding beyond the known borders of the Universe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the is the hidden evil power behind nationalism everywhere?

2. What does Einstein say is the greatest change in physics since Newton?

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

4. What frees physics from nineteenth-century false hopes for "induction"?

5. What prevents Jews from giving blind obeisance to any moral authority?

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