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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 will make human life intolerable according to Einstein?
(a) inequality of material wealth in different nations.
(b) economic recession.
(c) the development of mechanical methods of warfare.
(d) religion based on fear.

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

3. Einstein wrote an article in honor of which birthday of Arnold Berliner's ?
(a) the sixtieth
(b) the seventieth
(c) the eightieth
(d) the ninetieth

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

5. What did Einstein think was the chief duty of the State?
(a) protect the individual, giving him opportunity for creative growth.
(b) to enforce the law and arrest criminals.
(c) to keep the economy prosperous.
(d) to support welfare programs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Einstein abhor as the worst outcrop of the herd nature?

2. At the time Einstein wrote this book which two U.S. products represented "real" overproduction, production exceeding the demand?

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

4. How many men refusing to fight on conscientious grounds at the same moment did Einstein think would be irresistible?

5. What is a chief reason we can't abolish war according to Einstein?

(see the answer key)

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