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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 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."

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

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

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

5. What will make human life intolerable according to Einstein?
(a) inequality of material wealth in different nations.
(b) the development of mechanical methods of warfare.
(c) religion based on fear.
(d) economic recession.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What Irish writer did Einstein esteem for his subtle humor and knowledge of human nature?

4. What was one of the propositions of the League of Nations?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Define "real" overproduction.

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

6. What seemed contemptible to Einstein as objects of human endeavor?

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

8. What was Einstein's thought about cities and towns?

9. What did Einstein feel a country had to do in order to abolish war?

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

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