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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Einstein in favor of abolishing?
(a) technical advances.
(b) large cities.
(c) politicians.
(d) tax.

2. What did Einstein think should be done with patriotic women?
(a) They should work in factories.
(b) They should keep the home fires burning.
(c) They should pray for peace.
(d) They should be sent to the front.

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

4. Why were the laws of Prohibition destructive laws according to Einstein?
(a) They were thought up by prudish ladies.
(b) Some alcohol, especially wine, is healthy.
(c) They promoted crime.
(d) They couldn't be enforced.

5. Which country created a permanent Institute for intellectual co-operation?
(a) America.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

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

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

8. What did Berliner describe a scientific author to be a cross between in his humorous riddle?
(a) a hedgehog and a rose.
(b) a lion and a mouse.
(c) a peony and an ant.
(d) a mimosa and a porcupine.

9. What is the prime cause of the moral collapse of the white race according to Einstein?
(a) compulsory military service.
(b) intolerance.
(c) greed.
(d) alcohol.

10. Tyrants of genius are succeeded by whom, in Einstein's opinion?
(a) libertarians.
(b) anarchists
(c) men of democratic ideals.
(d) scoundrels.

11. What did Einstein think would lead to an "international police"?
(a) the despotism of one nation.
(b) the cowardice of the world's peoples.
(c) the need for subduing national unrest.
(d) the almagamation of mercenary armies.

12. Who does Einstein consider unfortunate and almost disqualified for life?
(a) A person who is not educated.
(b) A person who is not inquisitive.
(c) Someone who regards himself as better than others.
(d) Someone who regards his and others' lives as meaningless.

13. Who was Frauelein Knake?
(a) Katzenstein's enthusiastic fellow-worker.
(b) a patient of Katzenstein's.
(c) Einstein's niece.
(d) Katzenstein's future daughter-in-law.

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

15. Einstein compared the situation of the scientific world of his time to which Bible story?
(a) Daniel in the Lion's Den.
(b) the parable of the lost sheep.
(c) the Tower of Babel.
(d) the Prodigal Son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Einstein and his best friend hold long conversations for 10 years or more during his stay in Berlin?

2. What did Einstein feel was the main cause of the crisis the world faced?

3. What did H.A. Lorentz devote himself to?

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

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

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