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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 book lay always on Einstein's table?
(a) the Talmud.
(b) the Bible.
(c) an illustrated book of Japanese wood cuts.
(d) a book of colored drawings by Japanese children.

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

3. Why were the laws of Prohibition destructive laws according to Einstein?
(a) Some alcohol, especially wine, is healthy.
(b) They couldn't be enforced.
(c) They promoted crime.
(d) They were thought up by prudish ladies.

4. What has little place in the life of America as compared with Europe, according to Einstein?
(a) science and mathematics.
(b) religion and theology.
(c) psychology and psychiatry.
(d) the visual arts and music.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Einstein view ease and happiness?

2. What did Einstein deem the most important thing in helping humanity forward?

3. In what European city were the Solvay Congresses held in 1909 and 1912?

4. What determines the true value of a human being?

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

(see the answer key)

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