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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?
(a) As tainted.
(b) As a mixture of guesswork and labwork.
(c) As impossible.
(d) As sacred.

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

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

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

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

7. Into how many parts is "Religion and Science" divided?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

9. In what way does Einstein compare Europeans to Americans?
(a) Europeans are more generous than Americans.
(b) Europeans are more gullible than Americans.
(c) Europeans value family more than Americans.
(d) He says Europeans are more pessimistic in general than Americans.

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

11. How could unilateral disarmament be negotiated?
(a) Through laws in a world court.
(b) Einstein is not certain about that point.
(c) Through enforcement of the League of Nations.
(d) Through arbitration.

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

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

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

15. What does Einstein say about the struggle for human rights?
(a) It is visionary.
(b) Each person has to choose his own rights.
(c) It is eternal.
(d) It is illusionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what do great men have little effect?

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

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

4. What does Einstein warn the Progressive Education Association?

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

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