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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Berliner wrote a textbook on which subject?
(a) physics.
(b) mathematics.
(c) biology.
(d) anthropology.

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

4. What treaty did Einstein call unfortunate?
(a) the Treaty of Berlin.
(b) the Treaty of Paris.
(c) the Treaty of Versailles.
(d) the International Treaty of Nations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What pact condemned war but left the individuals of each country to the mercy of the war machine?

2. What is the principle art of a teacher according to Einstein?

3. What fundamental emotion stands at the cradle of true art and true science?

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

5. What is "apparent" overproduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Einstein remind himself of a hundred times a day?

2. What example did Einstein give for the uselessness of money in helping humanity forward?

3. What were some of Einstein's objections to compulsory military service?

4. How did Einstein view Americans?

5. What did the French Government decide to create and maintain?

6. What did Einstein feel about people who worship an anthropomorphic God?

7. Why did Einstein feel H.A. Lorentz was the greatest and noblest man of his times?

8. What did Einstein feel the chief duty of the State was?

9. What were suggestions of Einstein for American workers which he thought would help industry and would necessarily limit economic freedom?

10. Define "apparent" overproduction.

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