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

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

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

4. To whom shouldn't we leave the struggle against armaments and against the war spirit according to Einstein?
(a) to the people.
(b) to religion.
(c) to the youth of countries.
(d) to the Governments.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the laws of Prohibition destructive laws according to Einstein?

2. What finally happens when businesses go smash?

3. What did Einstein feel used to unite Europe as late as the 17th century?

4. What was Einstein's remedy for the stoppages in the industrial cycle?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Einstein think the true value of the human being is?

5. Describe Einstein's view of minorities; which one does he refer to at the end of Part II?

6. What two comments did Einstein make about class differences?

7. Define "real" overproduction.

8. How did Einstein view Americans?

9. What was Einstein's opinion of political leaders and governments?

10. What did Einstein say he had never with his whole heart really belonged to?

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