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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Germany".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Einstein feel was the main cause of the crisis the world faced?
(a) technical progress.
(b) ignorance.
(c) human laziness.
(d) stupidity.

2. To what subject did Katzenstein devote his scientific energies during the last 10 years of his life?
(a) eye surgery.
(b) performing successful appendectomies.
(c) the antagonism of the tissues.
(d) the transplanting of organs.

3. What was the reason Einstein gave for no longer wanting to live in Germany?
(a) He was Jewish.
(b) He planned to emigrate to America.
(c) He preferred France.
(d) no legal equality or freedom to say or teach what he wanted.

4. What non-political authority did the League of Nations create?
(a) The Commission for Intellectual Co-operation.
(b) The Commission for Disarmament.
(c) The Commission for World Peace.
(d) The Commission for Conscientious Objection.

5. What was one of the propositions of the League of Nations?
(a) to begin each League of Nations meeting with a prayer for peace.
(b) to have an international court of arbitration.
(c) to meet each year to vote on world issues.
(d) to admit every country in the world to its League.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Einstein and his best friend hold long conversations for 10 years or more during his stay in Berlin?

2. Einstein had also been a corresponding member of what other academy of Sciences?

3. What has little place in the life of America as compared with Europe, according to Einstein?

4. At the beginning of Part III Einstein stated that hoped the principles of what great Germans would again prevail in Germany sometime in the future?

5. Why is limitation of armaments and rules for the conduct of war not a workable plan according to Einstein?

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