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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Germany".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Einstein in favor of abolishing?
(a) tax.
(b) politicians.
(c) large cities.
(d) technical advances.

2. What did Einstein consider would have been the repudiation of all the notions of justice and liberty for which he stood all his life?
(a) disowning his Jewish heritage.
(b) giving up his German citizenship.
(c) becoming political since he felt politicians were corrupt.
(d) putting a "good word" in for the German people in 1933.

3. Who did Einstein consider the greatest and noblest man of his times?
(a) Ghandi
(b) H.A. Lorentz
(c) Schweitzer
(d) Konrad Lorenz

4. Tyrants of genius are succeeded by whom, in Einstein's opinion?
(a) men of democratic ideals.
(b) anarchists
(c) scoundrels.
(d) libertarians.

5. What non-political authority did the League of Nations create?
(a) The Commission for Intellectual Co-operation.
(b) The Commission for Conscientious Objection.
(c) The Commission for Disarmament.
(d) The Commission for World Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the peoples of all countries guilty of which make disarmament impossible?

2. What Irish writer did Einstein esteem for his subtle humor and knowledge of human nature?

3. How does Einstein view ease and happiness?

4. What did the German scientific academies do that Einstein deplored?

5. Why is limitation of armaments and rules for the conduct of war not a workable plan according to Einstein?

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