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

2. Why did the intellectually elite not have a direct influence on the history of nations according to Einstein?
(a) their snobbery
(b) their idealism
(c) their small numbers.
(d) their lack of cohesion

3. What was the cultural flowering of the Italian Renaissance based on?
(a) the liberation and comparative isolation of the individual.
(b) rich patrons who supported struggling artists.
(c) the beauty of the Italian landscape and aid of the Pope.
(d) portraying the scriptures in painting and sculpture.

4. What fundamental emotion stands at the cradle of true art and true science?
(a) joy.
(b) mystery.
(c) love.
(d) sympathy.

5. What non-political authority did the League of Nations create?
(a) The Commission for World Peace.
(b) The Commission for Disarmament.
(c) The Commission for Intellectual Co-operation.
(d) The Commission for Conscientious Objection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the outcomes of a small overworked labor force?

2. What does Einstein regard as contrary to justice and based on force?

3. What is the silently accepted motto of people having no civil courage?

4. What is necessary for culture to flourish in a nation according to Einstein?

5. Who, considered a heretic, does Einstein compare with Saint Francis of Assisi?

(see the answer key)

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