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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. According to Einstein, what provides no security to the world situation?
(a) The League of Nations and Court of Arbitration.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Belief in God.
(d) Prayer.

2. Though the scientific method can teach how facts relate and condition one another, what can it not do?
(a) Determine the existence of God.
(b) Teach compassion.
(c) Determine absolute truth.
(d) Deduce the goal of human aspirations.

3. Why does Einstein think humans act and think?
(a) Because it is a compulsion built into them genetically.
(b) Because they are superior to animals.
(c) To satisfy needs and avoid pain.
(d) In order to evolve.

4. Who does Einstein think is partly to blame for Europe's condition?
(a) The agressiveness of its policies.
(b) The indecisiveness of its leaders.
(c) The United States.
(d) The arrogance of its leaders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Einstein present "Religion and Science"?

2. How does Einstein characterize the women of America?

3. What has too much influence on public thought?

4. What does Einstein laud in "Congratulations to a Critic"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Einstein say scientists and engineers should do in relationship to war?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Einstein say to the Progressive Education Association

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

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