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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Einstein regard as contrary to justice and based on force?
(a) Nazism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) class differences.
(d) nationalism.

5. Who did Einstein consider the greatest and noblest man of his times?
(a) Konrad Lorenz
(b) Ghandi
(c) H.A. Lorentz
(d) Schweitzer

6. What are the ideals which have lighted Einstein's way and given him courage to face life cheerfully?
(a) Brotherhood, Liberty and Equality.
(b) Equality, Science and Enlightenment.
(c) Truth, Goodness and Beauty.
(d) Justice, Empathy and Wisdom.

7. How does Einstein view ease and happiness?
(a) things to be grateful for.
(b) the most important things in life.
(c) things to strive toward.
(d) not as ends in themselves.

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

9. Who, in this materialistic world, are the most profoundly religious people according to Einstein?
(a) welfare workers.
(b) priests and ministers.
(c) philanthropists.
(d) serious scientific workers.

10. Who, considered a heretic, does Einstein compare with Saint Francis of Assisi?
(a) Spinoza.
(b) Confucious.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Buddha.

11. What did Popper-Lynkaeus feel society was responsible for?
(a) promoting nationalism.
(b) keeping crime in check.
(c) the fate of every individual.
(d) keeping a viable, profitable economic condition.

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

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

14. Which nation does Einstein feel helped to Balkanize Europe?
(a) America.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

15. What did Einstein feel had to be gradually abolished as the political organization of Europe was strengthened?
(a) oligarchies.
(b) dictatorships.
(c) tariff barriers.
(d) different currencies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Einstein's political ideal?

3. In what European city were the Solvay Congresses held in 1909 and 1912?

4. What evoked religious notions in primitive man according to Einstein?

5. To whom did Einstein compare conscientious objectors?

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