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

2. What did Einstein feel was the main cause of the crisis the world faced?
(a) technical progress.
(b) ignorance.
(c) stupidity.
(d) human laziness.

3. 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 Geneva Pact
(d) the Peace Pact.

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

5. What about Einstein was in contrast to his passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility?
(a) his prejudice about certain people.
(b) his sense of detachment and need for solitude.
(c) his feeling that intellectuals were superior.
(d) his contempt for the masses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the peoples of all countries guilty of which make disarmament impossible?

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

3. Who was Einstein's closest friend during the time he spent in Berlin?

4. What is necessary to make the results of technical progress beneficial to all according to Einstein?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Define "apparent" overproduction.

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

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

4. Why did Einstein feel compelled to leave the Commission of the League of Nations?

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

6. What were some criticisms Einstein had about the League of Nations and the Court of Arbitration?

7. Define "real" overproduction.

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

9. According to Einstein what united European savants and artists as late as the seventeenth century?

10. What is Einstein's opinion of the military system?

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