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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Einstein say are now the ones who advocate international thought?
(a) Pseudo-artists.
(b) Communists.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Intellectuals.

2. What does Einstein believe will not move humanity forward?
(a) Technology.
(b) Hate.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Industry.

3. How does the individual develop and gain significance?
(a) By having good genes.
(b) By diligent striving.
(c) Through participation in the human community.
(d) By clear thinking.

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

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 attack those countries.
(c) Japan will negotiate.
(d) Japan will yield.

6. What impact does technological progress have on human relations?
(a) It retards human relations.
(b) It freezes human relations.
(c) It accelerates human relations.
(d) It promotes human relations.

7. What makes life easier but also brings economic dangers that planning must address?
(a) Mass production.
(b) Science and technology.
(c) Labor unions.
(d) Labor laws.

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

9. What happens when religious people insist the Bible is absolutely truth or when scientists render value judgments?
(a) The thesis of each side offers a synthesis.
(b) A consensus is reached.
(c) A new field of science is born.
(d) Conflicts arise.

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

11. Who is is the "noblest man of our times" and a natural leader?
(a) The Dutch physicist H. A. Lorentz.
(b) J. Menniger.
(c) The engineer Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus.
(d) Mahatma Ghandi.

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

13. By what ideals has Einstein lived?
(a) Happiness, honor and comfort.
(b) Truth, industry and happiness.
(c) Beauty, happiness and curiousity.
(d) Kindness, beauty and truth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einstein say about the struggle for human rights?

2. With what does religion deal?

3. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?

4. "On Academic Freedom" (1931) defends whom?

5. What is the one good thing about the fact that America has heaped so many accolades on Einstein?

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