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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Einstein feel was the greatest obstacle to world order?
(a) nationalism or rather patriotism
(b) human nature.
(c) greed for money and power.
(d) ignorance.

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

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

4. What did H.A. Lorentz devote himself to?
(a) reconciliation
(b) research
(c) religion
(d) writing books

5. Who was it who spoke the following words: "It's no use, Gentlemen, science is and remains international."
(a) Einstein.
(b) Emil Fischer.
(c) Dr. Solf.
(d) Dr. Katzenstein.

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

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

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

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

10. What was Lorentz' "unspoken but faithfully followed advice"?
(a) "Survival of the Fittest".
(b) "To Thine Own Self Be True".
(c) "Virtue is its own reward".
(d) "Not mastery but service".

11. What did Einstein abhor as the worst outcrop of the herd nature?
(a) materialism.
(b) crime.
(c) the military system.
(d) lack of individuality.

12. What non-political authority did the League of Nations create?
(a) The Commission for Disarmament.
(b) The Commission for Intellectual Co-operation.
(c) The Commission for World Peace.
(d) The Commission for Conscientious Objection.

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

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

15. The book, WAR AGAIN TO-MORROW, which Einstein recommended, was written by whom?
(a) Heinrich Heine.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) Hermann Hesse.
(d) Ludwig Bauer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men refusing to fight on conscientious grounds at the same moment did Einstein think would be irresistible?

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

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

4. What book lay always on Einstein's table?

5. What constitutes an impotent pacifism according to Einstein?

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