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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 did Einstein think should be done with patriotic women?

2. What did Einstein feel would lead to unemployment?

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

4. What did Einstein think would lead to an "international police"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Define "real" overproduction.

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

3. List one of the things the member States of the League of Nations should be bound to?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Einstein admire about Dr. Solf?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe Einstein's views on Judaism. Go into detail.

2) What did Einstein advise Jewish youth to do? Why do you think he advised that?

3) What was the Zionist movement? Name one or two leaders of the movement.

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

Essay Topic 2

1) What did Einstein say in his letter to a woman who sent him a manuscript for his comments?

2) What did Einstein say in his message to the children of Japan? What book did he mention to them that he had always lying on his table?

3) What did Einstein mean by "Paradise Lost"? Elaborate.

4) Write on two of the three topics.

Essay Topic 3

1) What is the importance of scientific inquiry, according to Einstein? What does science need in order to flourish?

2) What does the letter Einstein wrote to Signor Rocco, Minister of State, Rome, contain?

3) What is Einstein's opinion about interviewers of public figures ie newspaper reporters and what they write?

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

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