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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 does Einstein need a great deal of?
(a) Possessions.
(b) Social interaction.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Comfort.

2. How does Einstein characterize the women of America?
(a) As cyphers.
(b) As rejecting advances.
(c) As a millstone around the necks of their husbands.
(d) As intellectually inferior.

3. How does the individual develop and gain significance?
(a) By diligent striving.
(b) By clear thinking.
(c) By having good genes.
(d) Through participation in the human community.

4. What does Einstein believe about all profound scientists?
(a) That they are fooling not only themselves but the public.
(b) That they cannot be trusted.
(c) That they are religious, but not religiously naïve.
(d) That they hold knowledge to a higher standard of verification than is necessary.

5. What does Einstein say about the struggle for human rights?
(a) It is illusionary.
(b) Each person has to choose his own rights.
(c) It is eternal.
(d) It is visionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Einstein compare Europeans to Americans?

2. How could unilateral disarmament be negotiated?

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

4. How does Einstein characterize pure scientific research?

5. How should readers approach the person in question #32?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Einstein want to mobilize religious organizations?

2. What is Einstein's view of the relationship between technology and employment?

3. In Message in the Time-Capsule what does Einstein say, tongue in cheek?

4. How does Einstein see Gandhi?

5. What does Einstein say about Marie Curie upon her death?

6. What does Einstein talk about in The World as I See It?

7. Why does Einstein laud engineer Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus?

8. How does Einstein feel about America in his first trip there?

9. What does Einstein say to the Progressive Education Association

10. How does Einstein view the state's function and what does he define as a state slave?

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