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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Germany".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one of the propositions of the League of Nations?
(a) to meet each year to vote on world issues.
(b) to admit every country in the world to its League.
(c) to have an international court of arbitration.
(d) to begin each League of Nations meeting with a prayer for peace.

2. To whom shouldn't we leave the struggle against armaments and against the war spirit according to Einstein?
(a) to religion.
(b) to the Governments.
(c) to the youth of countries.
(d) to the people.

3. Einstein called the League of Nations not much more than a what?
(a) weak attempt.
(b) meeting hall.
(c) fiasco.
(d) pipe dream.

4. When had Einstein acquired Prussian nationality by becoming a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1916.

5. What did Einstein feel was the main cause of the crisis the world faced?
(a) stupidity.
(b) human laziness.
(c) ignorance.
(d) technical progress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dr. Solf was the pillar of what college?

3. What famous French legal case did Einstein use to illustrate his decision not to associate with the French Manifesto against anti-Semitism?

4. What did Einstein consider would have been the repudiation of all the notions of justice and liberty for which he stood all his life?

5. What was the official date of Einstein's resignation from the Prussian Academy of Sciences?

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