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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 does Einstein believe prompted the development of the superior American technical devices and work organization?
(a) the high price of labor.
(b) abundance of money.
(c) better education in the schools.
(d) superior scientists and thinkers.

2. What did Popper-Lynkaeus feel society was responsible for?
(a) keeping crime in check.
(b) the fate of every individual.
(c) promoting nationalism.
(d) keeping a viable, profitable economic condition.

3. What about Einstein was in contrast to his passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility?
(a) his contempt for the masses.
(b) his sense of detachment and need for solitude.
(c) his prejudice about certain people.
(d) his feeling that intellectuals were superior.

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

5. What does Einstein regard as contrary to justice and based on force?
(a) Nazism.
(b) nationalism.
(c) class differences.
(d) Fascism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Einstein's closest friend during the time he spent in Berlin?

2. Who does Einstein consider unfortunate and almost disqualified for life?

3. To what subject did Katzenstein devote his scientific energies during the last 10 years of his life?

4. How does Einstein view ease and happiness?

5. Why were the laws of Prohibition destructive laws according to Einstein?

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