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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How should readers approach the person in question #32?
(a) With skepticism.
(b) The man's works should not be read by the average person.
(c) With an open mind.
(d) With the idea of refuting what he writes.

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

3. Who has created the League of Nations?
(a) Intellectuals.
(b) Politicians.
(c) The common people.
(d) Communits.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Einstein think humans act and think?

2. What is valued more in Europe than in the United States?

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

4. Though the scientific method can teach how facts relate and condition one another, what can it not do?

5. How does Einstein view Bertrand Russell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Einstein say about Marie Curie upon her death?

2. How does Einstein see Gandhi?

3. How does Einstein feel about sharing his views?

4. What does Einstein say about scientist and religion?

5. What is Einstein's opinion about science, religion and conflict?

6. How does Einstein view the state's function and what does he define as a state slave?

7. How does Einstein feel about America in his first trip there?

8. What does Einstein think of the policy of security through superior military power and what does he say this policy has done?

9. How does Einstein see as being the only way conscientious objection can work?

10. What does Einstein say to the Progressive Education Association

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