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

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

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

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

5. Unless all nations band together to face aggressors, what is inevitable?
(a) Universal anarchy and terror.
(b) Triumph of evil.
(c) Universal domination and subjugation.
(d) Capitulation of pacific nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has science not done?

2. Why are Americans so far removed from the Asians and Russians?

3. Who does Einstein think is partly to blame for Europe's condition?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Einstein feel about sharing his views?

2. What's the main idea behind "Freedom?"

3. What does Einstein say society depends upon schools to do and why do they?

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

5. What does Einstein say about scientist and religion?

6. How does Einstein see Gandhi?

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

8. Give a brief statement of Einstein's definition of religion and science.

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

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

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