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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 "Politics and Pacifism".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Irish writer did Einstein esteem for his subtle humor and knowledge of human nature?
(a) George Bernard Shaw.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

2. What are the peoples of all countries guilty of which make disarmament impossible?
(a) anger and greed.
(b) indifference and slackness.
(c) cowardice.
(d) stupidity.

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

4. What is necessary to make the results of technical progress beneficial to all according to Einstein?
(a) strict laws.
(b) regulation and organization.
(c) the welfare system.
(d) economic prosperity.

5. Dr. Solf was the pillar of what college?
(a) Schiller College.
(b) Princeton College.
(c) Berlin College.
(d) Lessing College.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Einstein's political ideal?

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

3. What non-political authority did the League of Nations create?

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

5. What did Einstein think was the chief duty of the State?

(see the answer key)

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