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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Einstein claim uncontrolled technology has created?
(a) An abandonment of religious principles.
(b) Massive religious unrest.
(c) A reliance on machines that may prove society's downfall.
(d) Massive unemployment.

2. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?
(a) As tainted.
(b) As a mixture of guesswork and labwork.
(c) As impossible.
(d) As sacred.

3. What makes life easier but also brings economic dangers that planning must address?
(a) Labor unions.
(b) Labor laws.
(c) Science and technology.
(d) Mass production.

4. Though one man choosing to be a conscientious objector would accomplish little, what would accomplish much?
(a) Einstein is not sure.
(b) Fifty thousand conscientious objectors.
(c) All women asking their husbands, brothers and father to choose not to fight.
(d) All the world leaders being "conscientious objectors."

5. What will force even the most reactionary scientists to cooperate?
(a) War.
(b) Economic pressures.
(c) The desire for knowledge.
(d) Political pressure.

Short Answer Questions

1. With the family eroding, society depends on the schools for what?

2. What is valued more in Europe than in the United States?

3. What does Einstein admire about Mahatma Ghandi?

4. Who does Einstein urge to appreciate the legacy of countless generations and work to understand all nations and ages?

5. What does Einstein say about the struggle for human rights?

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