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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though the scientific method can teach how facts relate and condition one another, what can it not do?
(a) Determine absolute truth.
(b) Teach compassion.
(c) Deduce the goal of human aspirations.
(d) Determine the existence of God.

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

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

4. How does Einstein characterize the House Un-American Activities Committee?
(a) As a modern inquisitional institution.
(b) As a group of men doing a necessary cleansing.
(c) With the highest respect.
(d) As the lapdog of facism.

5. In what field do Americans fall behind their European counterparts?
(a) Research and development.
(b) Charity.
(c) Armament.
(d) International politics.

6. Why does Einstein think humans act and think?
(a) In order to evolve.
(b) Because it is a compulsion built into them genetically.
(c) Because they are superior to animals.
(d) To satisfy needs and avoid pain.

7. What does Einstein encourage lesser scientists to do?
(a) To help those scientist on the edge of big break throughs.
(b) To work diligently even if its on a very small discovery.
(c) Not be isolationist.
(d) To work alone and not waste the time of geniuses.

8. What does Einstein believe will not move humanity forward?
(a) Technology.
(b) Hate.
(c) Industry.
(d) Wealth.

9. By what ideals has Einstein lived?
(a) Beauty, happiness and curiousity.
(b) Happiness, honor and comfort.
(c) Truth, industry and happiness.
(d) Kindness, beauty and truth.

10. Whose work shatters the framework of classical mechanics and provides the basis for further research in physics?
(a) Frederick Grover.
(b) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
(c) Max Planck.
(d) Paul Dirac.

11. What three topics are addressed in Part 1?
(a) Science, religion, and relationships.
(b) Government, education and religion.
(c) Freedom, love, government.
(d) Freedom, religion, and education.

12. Why must disarmament and joint security occur all at once or not at all?
(a) Because as long as war is possible, everyone wants to be in a position to win.
(b) Because someone will inevitably double cross the others.
(c) Because those countries still armed will not do what they say once others disarm.
(d) Because peace is unenforcable if some countries are still armed.

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

14. What does Einstein warn the Progressive Education Association?
(a) That education is worthless without morality.
(b) That progress without intention is disasterous.
(c) That progress without deliberation leads to becoming mired in legality.
(d) That teaching pacifism without spurning militarism is unrealistic.

15. What does Einstein condemn in "Production and Work"?
(a) The overproduction of goods.
(b) The use of manual labor when machines are available.
(c) The unlimited freedom of the labor market's extraordinary progress in methods of production.
(d) The use of machines that eliminates so many jobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Einstein, what provides no security to the world situation?

2. Who does Einstein praise for her moral qualities and hardships above her intellectual accomplishments?

3. Who is is the "noblest man of our times" and a natural leader?

4. What is the one good thing about the fact that America has heaped so many accolades on Einstein?

5. Who does Einstein say are now the ones who advocate international thought?

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