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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 "Politics and Pacifism".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in Einstein's opinion, did the religious geniuses of all ages have in common?
(a) rejection of dogma and God in man's image.
(b) intellectual superiority.
(c) the embracing a church or temple of some kind.
(d) martyrdom.

2. What is Einstein's political ideal?
(a) communism
(b) democracy
(c) socialism
(d) egalitarianism

3. What fundamental emotion stands at the cradle of true art and true science?
(a) joy.
(b) love.
(c) mystery.
(d) sympathy.

4. Who was Einstein's closest friend during the time he spent in Berlin?
(a) Professor Feldmeier.
(b) Professor Goldsmidt.
(c) Professor Loewenstein.
(d) Professor Katzenstein.

5. What is the silently accepted motto of people having no civil courage?
(a) "What's the use?"
(b) "It will be worked out somehow."
(c) "Leave it alone and don't speak of it."
(d) "War in inevitable."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Einstein in favor of abolishing?

2. In what European city were the Solvay Congresses held in 1909 and 1912?

3. What does Einstein regard as contrary to justice and based on force?

4. What did Einstein state was the death of all sound work?

5. Einstein called the League of Nations not much more than a what?

(see the answer key)

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