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

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

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

4. What evoked religious notions in primitive man according to Einstein?
(a) fear.
(b) love.
(c) superstition.
(d) want.

5. To what subject did Katzenstein devote his scientific energies during the last 10 years of his life?
(a) the antagonism of the tissues.
(b) eye surgery.
(c) the transplanting of organs.
(d) performing successful appendectomies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Einstein compared the situation of the scientific world of his time to which Bible story?

2. What was the cultural flowering of the Italian Renaissance based on?

3. What has little place in the life of America as compared with Europe, according to Einstein?

4. To whom did Einstein write about the sacredness of the pursuit of scientific truth requesting protection of Italian scholars.

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

(see the answer key)

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