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

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

3. 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 general lazy nature of Americans.
(c) The intellectual prowess of Americans.
(d) The high cost of labor.

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

5. What does Einstein condemn in "Production and Work"?
(a) The use of machines that eliminates so many jobs.
(b) The overproduction of goods.
(c) The use of manual labor when machines are available.
(d) The unlimited freedom of the labor market's extraordinary progress in methods of production.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has stood in the way of the development of technology in China and India?

2. How could unilateral disarmament be negotiated?

3. What has made international peace a matter of life and death and an ethical imperative for everyone?

4. What does Einstein believe will not move humanity forward?

5. When are people happiest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Einstein feel about America's isolationist policy and America's role in Europe?

2. How does Einstein see Gandhi?

3. How does Einstein feel about the League of Nations and aggressors? What does he say about the fate of the world?

4. What is the main theme in Paradise Lost by Einstein?

5. What is Einstein's view of the relationship between technology and employment?

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

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

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

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

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

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