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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 was Lorentz' "unspoken but faithfully followed advice"?
(a) "To Thine Own Self Be True".
(b) "Not mastery but service".
(c) "Survival of the Fittest".
(d) "Virtue is its own reward".

2. What did Einstein abhor as the worst outcrop of the herd nature?
(a) lack of individuality.
(b) crime.
(c) materialism.
(d) the military system.

3. The religions of civilized peoples are based primarily on what according to Einstein?
(a) fear.
(b) morality.
(c) worship of a superior Being.
(d) brotherhood.

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

5. Who was Frauelein Knake?
(a) Katzenstein's enthusiastic fellow-worker.
(b) Katzenstein's future daughter-in-law.
(c) Einstein's niece.
(d) a patient of Katzenstein's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Einstein consider the greatest and noblest man of his times?

2. How did Einstein view property, outward success and luxury?

3. What did Popper-Lynkaeus feel society was responsible for?

4. What did Berliner describe a scientific author to be a cross between in his humorous riddle?

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

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