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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Einstein urge to appreciate the legacy of countless generations and work to understand all nations and ages?
(a) Happy youth.
(b) Elderly politicians.
(c) Those who would go to war.
(d) Unhappy youth.

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

3. What has made international peace a matter of life and death and an ethical imperative for everyone?
(a) The global market.
(b) Technology.
(c) Waning resources.
(d) Religious imperatives.

4. According to Einstein, what provides no security to the world situation?
(a) Belief in God.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Prayer.
(d) The League of Nations and Court of Arbitration.

5. Why does Einstein think people should labor as little as possible to maintain life and health?
(a) Because human relationships need as much time as possible.
(b) In order to concentrate on their intellectual and artistic powers.
(c) In order to partake in spiritual pursuits.
(d) Because that labor has no last value.

6. How does a country enslave its citizens?
(a) Through engendering mistrust amongst their citizens.
(b) Through forced military service.
(c) Through the rationing of basic necessities.
(d) Through economic deprivation.

7. What sort of life does Einstein believe is good for all human beings?
(a) Simple.
(b) Full of change.
(c) Intensely focused.
(d) Cluttered with stuff with which to amuse.

8. What is the one good thing about the fact that America has heaped so many accolades on Einstein?
(a) It is a sign that materialism has not completely taken over the minds of Americans.
(b) That it is a sign that America is open minded.
(c) That it may help them forgive Germany's excesses.
(d) That it is a sign that Americans value education.

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

10. What does Einstein laud in "Congratulations to a Critic"?
(a) The abillity to use criticism constructively.
(b) The ability to think independently.
(c) The ability to understand without criticizing.
(d) The ability to receive criticism without sulking.

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

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

13. Though the scientific method can teach how facts relate and condition one another, what can it not do?
(a) Deduce the goal of human aspirations.
(b) Determine the existence of God.
(c) Teach compassion.
(d) Determine absolute truth.

14. What should history do?
(a) Interpret the progress in civilization rather than calculating power and success.
(b) Be forgotten.
(c) Influence the future.
(d) Teach the future.

15. How does Einstein characterize people who read only newspapers and modern literature?
(a) Myopic and snobbish.
(b) Wise.
(c) Undereducated.
(d) Mentally frail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen if the US, England, Germany, and France threaten to boycott Japan for its aggression in China?

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

3. Who does Einstein praise for her moral qualities and hardships above her intellectual accomplishments?

4. Unless all nations band together to face aggressors, what is inevitable?

5. What does Einstein need a great deal of?

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