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

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

3. How many men refusing to fight on conscientious grounds at the same moment did Einstein think would be irresistible?
(a) 50,000
(b) 60,000
(c) 100,000
(d) 75,000

4. Why did the intellectually elite not have a direct influence on the history of nations according to Einstein?
(a) their idealism
(b) their lack of cohesion
(c) their small numbers.
(d) their snobbery

5. What does Einstein believe prompted the development of the superior American technical devices and work organization?
(a) superior scientists and thinkers.
(b) abundance of money.
(c) the high price of labor.
(d) better education in the schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will make human life intolerable according to Einstein?

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

3. Einstein felt himself lucky to witness the peace demonstration organized by what people?

4. What is one of the outcomes of a small overworked labor force?

5. To whom did Einstein compare conscientious objectors?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Einstein think explained the symptoms of decadence and the severe struggle for existence to the detriment of the individual?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the friendship of Einstein and Dr. Katzenstein.

9. What was Einstein's opinion about conscientious objectors?

10. What was Einstein's alternative to compulsory military service and how would this be implemented?

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