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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three topics are addressed in Part 1?
(a) Science, religion, and relationships.
(b) Freedom, religion, and education.
(c) Freedom, love, government.
(d) Government, education and religion.

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

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

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

5. What puzzles Einstein about one aspect of the American economy?
(a) The lack of a savings plan.
(b) The fact that paper money is not backed by gold and silver.
(c) That the cost of labor is so high in comparison to goods produced.
(d) The high tariffs on foreign goods.

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

7. "On Academic Freedom" (1931) defends whom?
(a) Kant.
(b) Schoenberger.
(c) Hitler.
(d) E. J. Gumbel.

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

9. Upon what are Einstein's inner and outer lives based?
(a) The efforts towards understanding.
(b) The efforts of other men.
(c) The tenets of Christianity.
(d) The contemplation of infinity.

10. Once combat starts, what is meaningless?
(a) A peaceful resolution.
(b) Protection for civilians.
(c) Armaments and rules for the conduct of war.
(d) Finger pointing.

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

12. How are Americans foolish?
(a) To be unconcerned with the rest of the world.
(b) To believe Hitler's promises.
(c) To participate in a war that is not of their making.
(d) To give false assurances to their allies.

13. What does Einstein say is very detrimental to the respect for the government?
(a) Restricting voting rights.
(b) Engaging in unwinnable wars.
(c) Giving the vote to women.
(d) Passing unenforceable laws.

14. What does Einstein value in the German system of government?
(a) Its help for people in need or illness.
(b) Its rigidity.
(c) Its structure.
(d) Its adherence to tradition.

15. What is one attribute of American research that is giving them an increasing edge in the development of technology over other countries?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Propriety.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?

3. Who does Einstein think is the man least likely to be duped by desires?

4. What does Einstein laud in "Congratulations to a Critic"?

5. What does Einstein believe about all profound scientists?

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