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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 encourage lesser scientists to do?
(a) To work alone and not waste the time of geniuses.
(b) To help those scientist on the edge of big break throughs.
(c) Not be isolationist.
(d) To work diligently even if its on a very small discovery.

2. What does Einstein claim uncontrolled technology has created?
(a) Massive unemployment.
(b) An abandonment of religious principles.
(c) Massive religious unrest.
(d) A reliance on machines that may prove society's downfall.

3. What puzzles Einstein about one aspect of the American economy?
(a) That the cost of labor is so high in comparison to goods produced.
(b) The high tariffs on foreign goods.
(c) The lack of a savings plan.
(d) The fact that paper money is not backed by gold and silver.

4. What has science not done?
(a) Given humankind the means to achieve an end to war.
(b) Freed people from religious heresy.
(c) Freed people from superstition.
(d) Given humankind a sense of purpose.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einstein condemn in "Production and Work"?

2. What governing system does Einstein think is best?

3. What will force even the most reactionary scientists to cooperate?

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

5. What does Einstein say about the League of Nations' Committee of Intellectual Cooperation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Einstein see Gandhi?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In Message in the Time-Capsule what does Einstein say, tongue in cheek?

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