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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in this materialistic world, are the most profoundly religious people according to Einstein?
(a) serious scientific workers.
(b) priests and ministers.
(c) philanthropists.
(d) welfare workers.

2. How did Einstein describe what was happening to the German people with regard to their anti-Semitism?
(a) mass-psychosis.
(b) outrageous.
(c) despicable.
(d) intolerable.

3. In what German city was the Prussian Academy of Sciences located?
(a) Bremen.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Hamburg.

4. The book, WAR AGAIN TO-MORROW, which Einstein recommended, was written by whom?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) Ludwig Bauer.
(c) Hermann Hesse.
(d) Heinrich Heine.

5. What is "apparent" overproduction?
(a) A misunderstanding that the amount produced is too much.
(b) Not the demand but consumers' purchasing power is lacking.
(c) Production exceeds the demand.
(d) A mistake in the statistics of what is actually produced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the primary duty of a scientific academy in Einstein's opinion?

2. What did Einstein feel was one of the noblest features of the French tradition?

3. What fundamental emotion stands at the cradle of true art and true science?

4. What have the churches always fought, according to Einstein?

5. What was the date Einstein wrote his Manifesto about only staying in a country with political liberty, toleration and equality of citizens existed?

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