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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. What will force even the most reactionary scientists to cooperate?
(a) Economic pressures.
(b) The desire for knowledge.
(c) War.
(d) Political pressure.

2. What does Einstein admire about Mahatma Ghandi?
(a) His method of non-cooperation.
(b) The way he treated his wife.
(c) His vegetarian diet.
(d) His intellect.

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

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

5. What does Einstein say prompts efficiency and the development of technology in the United States?
(a) The value of the individual in the United States.
(b) The high cost of labor.
(c) The intellectual prowess of Americans.
(d) The general lazy nature of Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Einstein think humans act and think?

2. When are people happiest?

3. How could unilateral disarmament be negotiated?

4. Upon what do great men have little effect?

5. Whose saying has greatly influenced Einstein since he was quite young?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Einstein see Gandhi?

2. What was the name of the two writings by Einstein that spoke of his trip to America?

3. In To the Schoolchildren of Japan what are Einstein's hopes for Japanese children and how does that bear out?

4. What was Einstein reflecting on in the Message in the Time-Capsule?

5. For what reason does Einstein want to mobilize religious organizations?

6. What kind of thinker in humanities is Einstein and how does he act about his fame?

7. Why does Einstein laud engineer Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus?

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

9. What does Einstein talk about in The World as I See It?

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

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