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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book lay always on Einstein's table?
(a) an illustrated book of Japanese wood cuts.
(b) the Talmud.
(c) the Bible.
(d) a book of colored drawings by Japanese children.

2. What is the fate of the human race dependent on according to Einstein?
(a) its economic stability.
(b) its military power.
(c) its ability to isolate its members from one another.
(d) its moral strength.

3. What is a chief reason we can't abolish war according to Einstein?
(a) human nature.
(b) military training and its glorification.
(c) greed for power.
(d) lack of brotherly love.

4. What, in Einstein's opinion, did the religious geniuses of all ages have in common?
(a) martyrdom.
(b) the embracing a church or temple of some kind.
(c) rejection of dogma and God in man's image.
(d) intellectual superiority.

5. On what basis did Einstein feel conscientious objectors must be protected?
(a) on a religious basis.
(b) on an international basis.
(c) on a legal basis.
(d) on a moral basis.

6. How did Einstein view property, outward success and luxury?
(a) as desirable.
(b) as necessary for everyone.
(c) as goals to be attained.
(d) as contemptible.

7. To whom did Einstein compare conscientious objectors?
(a) religious martyrs.
(b) heroes.
(c) victims.
(d) eagles.

8. What elevates a man and enriches his nature, in Einstein's opinion?
(a) helping others less fortunate than he.
(b) the urge to understand, intellectual work, creative or receptive
(c) giving his life for his country.
(d) writing books that help others.

9. What pact condemned war but left the individuals of each country to the mercy of the war machine?
(a) the Geneva Pact
(b) the Kellogg Pact
(c) the Peace Pact.
(d) the Warsaw Pact.

10. At the time Einstein wrote this book which two U.S. products represented "real" overproduction, production exceeding the demand?
(a) meat and vegetables
(b) cars and wheat
(c) appliances and paper goods
(d) milk and corn

11. What was the problem forced on Einstein's Berlin surgeon friend out of the necessities of his practice?
(a) maintaining harmony among the medical staff.
(b) maintaining sanitary conditions during surgery.
(c) transplantation of tendons, a solution to lost muscles.
(d) the improvement of anesthesiology.

12. How did Einstein plan to abolish unemployment?
(a) build more factories.
(b) lower salaries.
(c) invent new jobs.
(d) legally reduce the number of working hours per week.

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

14. How many years did Einstein spend in Berlin?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What determines the true value of a human being?

2. What finally happens when businesses go smash?

3. What are the ideals which have lighted Einstein's way and given him courage to face life cheerfully?

4. Berliner wrote a textbook on which subject?

5. What is "apparent" overproduction?

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