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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who has created the League of Nations?
(a) The common people.
(b) Intellectuals.
(c) Communits.
(d) Politicians.
2. How does the individual develop and gain significance?
(a) Through participation in the human community.
(b) By having good genes.
(c) By clear thinking.
(d) By diligent striving.
3. How does Einstein characterize people who read only newspapers and modern literature?
(a) Undereducated.
(b) Wise.
(c) Myopic and snobbish.
(d) Mentally frail.
4. What does Einstein seem to hate above all else?
(a) Famine.
(b) Intellectual vapidity.
(c) Laziness.
(d) War.
5. What will happen if the US, England, Germany, and France threaten to boycott Japan for its aggression in China?
(a) China will attack Europe.
(b) Japan will yield.
(c) Japan will negotiate.
(d) Japan will attack those countries.
6. What makes life easier but also brings economic dangers that planning must address?
(a) Mass production.
(b) Labor unions.
(c) Science and technology.
(d) Labor laws.
7. Why must disarmament and joint security occur all at once or not at all?
(a) Because peace is unenforcable if some countries are still armed.
(b) Because as long as war is possible, everyone wants to be in a position to win.
(c) Because someone will inevitably double cross the others.
(d) Because those countries still armed will not do what they say once others disarm.
8. Who does Einstein say are now the ones who advocate international thought?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Intellectuals.
(c) Communists.
(d) Pseudo-artists.
9. With the family eroding, society depends on the schools for what?
(a) To teach morals.
(b) To supervise activities rather than learning.
(c) Not to transfer a maximum quantity of knowledge to students, but to help them think and act independently.
(d) To instill purpose in the students.
10. What three topics are addressed in Part 1?
(a) Freedom, love, government.
(b) Government, education and religion.
(c) Science, religion, and relationships.
(d) Freedom, religion, and education.
11. How are Americans foolish?
(a) To participate in a war that is not of their making.
(b) To give false assurances to their allies.
(c) To be unconcerned with the rest of the world.
(d) To believe Hitler's promises.
12. 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) Einstein is not sure.
(c) Fifty thousand conscientious objectors.
(d) All women asking their husbands, brothers and father to choose not to fight.
13. What will force even the most reactionary scientists to cooperate?
(a) War.
(b) Economic pressures.
(c) The desire for knowledge.
(d) Political pressure.
14. What could be organized to protect the world against nuclear power?
(a) Instilling an abhorrence of war in humankind.
(b) A strong "supranational" organization,
(c) A defensive weapon that would render fusion or fission impossible.
(d) Nothing.
15. Why does Einstein think humans act and think?
(a) Because they are superior to animals.
(b) Because it is a compulsion built into them genetically.
(c) To satisfy needs and avoid pain.
(d) In order to evolve.
Short Answer Questions
1. What has too much influence on public thought?
2. What is the one good thing about the fact that America has heaped so many accolades on Einstein?
3. What sort of life does Einstein believe is good for all human beings?
4. Though the scientific method can teach how facts relate and condition one another, what can it not do?
5. Why does Einstein say individuals should not be singled out and given all-encompassing admiration?
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