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Ideas and Opinions Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has too much influence on public thought?
(a) The press.
(b) The educational system.
(c) The church.
(d) The government.

2. What does Einstein warn the Progressive Education Association?
(a) That progress without deliberation leads to becoming mired in legality.
(b) That education is worthless without morality.
(c) That progress without intention is disasterous.
(d) That teaching pacifism without spurning militarism is unrealistic.

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

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

5. Who does Einstein praise for her moral qualities and hardships above her intellectual accomplishments?
(a) Golda Meir.
(b) Samantha Carter.
(c) Marie Curie.
(d) Mother Theresa.

6. What is pacifism that fails to fight against armaments?
(a) Wise.
(b) Impotent.
(c) Effective.
(d) Insane.

7. Though science can produce knowledge and means of action, what can it not do?
(a) Produce truth.
(b) Set goals or pass value judgments.
(c) Initiate that action.
(d) Stop thinking that arises from myth.

8. With what does religion deal?
(a) The need for progress.
(b) The truthof scientific theories.
(c) Everything not predetermined by heredity, sets ideals, and educates.
(d) The morality of science.

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

10. Why are Americans so far removed from the Asians and Russians?
(a) Americans live more for the future than the present.
(b) Americans are intellectually far superior.
(c) Americans are intellectually far inferior.
(d) Americans have no sense of traditions.

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

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

13. In what year is "Religion and Science" written?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1929.

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

15. What does Einstein need a great deal of?
(a) Social interaction.
(b) Comfort.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Possessions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Einstein view Bertrand Russell?

2. Why does Einstein think humans act and think?

3. Whose work shatters the framework of classical mechanics and provides the basis for further research in physics?

4. How should readers approach the person in question #32?

5. What happens when religious people insist the Bible is absolutely truth or when scientists render value judgments?

(see the answer keys)

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