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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the problem forced on Einstein's Berlin surgeon friend out of the necessities of his practice?

2. Who, in this materialistic world, are the most profoundly religious people according to Einstein?

3. What is "apparent" overproduction?

4. What did Einstein abhor as the worst outcrop of the herd nature?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Einstein admire about Dr. Solf?

3. Why did Einstein object to patriotism which is usually such a positive cause?

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

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

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

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

8. According to Einstein what was religion based on for primitive man and what did it develop into?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What was Einstein's view of the Flemish people's demonstration? What positive role did Einstein feel small nations might take in the world in the matter of peace?

2) Describe Einstein's views on labor. Describe the difference between real overproduction and apparent over production.

3) Describe Einstein's views on war reparations.

4) Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the kind of country Einstein refuses to live in. Give as much detail as possible.

2) Describe the communications between Einstein and the Prussian Academy of Science. Go into detail. What was the result?

3) Name three features of Jewish tradition which Einstein was most grateful for.

4) Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) What negative things does Einstein feel the press and mass media do? How are the masses negatively influenced by these?

2) Who was H.A. Lorentz and why did Einstein admire him?

3) What were the Solvay Congresses? Where did they take place? Who presided over them? Who gathered for them?

4) Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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