View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Buddhism is an example of what kind of religious feeling according to Einstein?
(a) fear-based.
(b) punitive.
(c) cosmic.
(d) anthropomorphic.

2. What is one of the outcomes of a small overworked labor force?
(a) an increase in sales and profits.
(b) a fall in sales and profits
(c) an increase in the salaries of the remaining workers.
(d) the avoidance of a recession.

3. What did Einstein feel couldn't be done by gradual steps?
(a) becoming a democracy.
(b) becoming intellectually superior.
(c) disarmament.
(d) enlightenment.

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

5. What was the cultural flowering of the Italian Renaissance based on?
(a) rich patrons who supported struggling artists.
(b) portraying the scriptures in painting and sculpture.
(c) the liberation and comparative isolation of the individual.
(d) the beauty of the Italian landscape and aid of the Pope.

6. What did Einstein feel used to unite Europe as late as the 17th century?
(a) religion.
(b) politics.
(c) a common ideal and use of the Latin language.
(d) the physical proximity of the European countries.

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

8. The religions of civilized peoples are based primarily on what according to Einstein?
(a) worship of a superior Being.
(b) brotherhood.
(c) fear.
(d) morality.

9. What did Einstein deem the most important thing in helping humanity forward?
(a) the example of great and pure characters.
(b) school education.
(c) scientific advancements.
(d) money and economic well-being.

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

11. Why is limitation of armaments and rules for the conduct of war not a workable plan according to Einstein?
(a) There is too much world competition between countries.
(b) The armament business is a big, successful business.
(c) When life and death are at stake, rules go by the board.
(d) People are war-like by nature.

12. What has little place in the life of America as compared with Europe, according to Einstein?
(a) psychology and psychiatry.
(b) the visual arts and music.
(c) religion and theology.
(d) science and mathematics.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Einstein think should be done with patriotic women?

2. Who does Einstein consider unfortunate and almost disqualified for life?

3. Tyrants of genius are succeeded by whom, in Einstein's opinion?

4. What about Einstein was in contrast to his passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 617 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample