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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 "The World as I See It".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What determines the true value of a human being?
(a) to what extent he has attained liberation from the self.
(b) how happy and contented he is.
(c) how much intellectual knowledge he has attained.
(d) how much charitable work he has done.

2. How many years did Einstein spend in Berlin?
(a) 10.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.

3. Who, considered a heretic, does Einstein compare with Saint Francis of Assisi?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Confucious.
(c) Spinoza.
(d) Buddha.

4. Berliner wrote a textbook on which subject?
(a) biology.
(b) anthropology.
(c) mathematics.
(d) physics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Einstein view ease and happiness?

2. What did Einstein abhor as the worst outcrop of the herd nature?

3. What is Einstein's political ideal?

4. What evoked religious notions in primitive man according to Einstein?

5. Buddhism is an example of what kind of religious feeling according to Einstein?

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