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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What evoked religious notions in primitive man according to Einstein?
(a) superstition.
(b) want.
(c) fear.
(d) love.

5. What have the churches always fought, according to Einstein?
(a) each other .
(b) philosophy.
(c) intellectualism.
(d) science.

6. What is "apparent" overproduction?
(a) Not the demand but consumers' purchasing power is lacking.
(b) A mistake in the statistics of what is actually produced.
(c) Production exceeds the demand.
(d) A misunderstanding that the amount produced is too much.

7. What are the peoples of all countries guilty of which make disarmament impossible?
(a) cowardice.
(b) anger and greed.
(c) stupidity.
(d) indifference and slackness.

8. To whom did Einstein address a farewell letter stating he would no longer go to Geneva nor be a member of the Commission?
(a) Lucien Brun, French Secretary of the League of Nations
(b) William Sands, English Secretary of the League of Nations
(c) Maurice LeGrand, Swiss Secretary of the League of Nations
(d) Dufour-Feronce, German Secretary of the League of Nations

9. 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.

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

11. Where did Einstein and his best friend hold long conversations for 10 years or more during his stay in Berlin?
(a) at the university.
(b) in his friend's garden.
(c) in a cafe house.
(d) on a yacht.

12. What is the silently accepted motto of people having no civil courage?
(a) "What's the use?"
(b) "Leave it alone and don't speak of it."
(c) "War in inevitable."
(d) "It will be worked out somehow."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the prime cause of the moral collapse of the white race according to Einstein?

2. Who did Einstein consider the greatest and noblest man of his times?

3. What is Einstein's political ideal?

4. Which nation does Einstein feel helped to Balkanize Europe?

5. What was Einstein in favor of abolishing?

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