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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 the Prussian Academy of Sciences accuse Einstein of?
(a) writing derogatory newspaper articles about the Academy.
(b) not writing the required scientific treatises.
(c) not disclosing recent scientific discoveries to the Academy.
(d) atrocity-mongering in America and France.

2. What book lay always on Einstein's table?
(a) the Talmud.
(b) an illustrated book of Japanese wood cuts.
(c) the Bible.
(d) a book of colored drawings by Japanese children.

3. Berliner wrote a textbook on which subject?
(a) physics.
(b) anthropology.
(c) mathematics.
(d) biology.

4. What is "apparent" overproduction?
(a) Production exceeds the demand.
(b) Not the demand but consumers' purchasing power is lacking.
(c) A misunderstanding that the amount produced is too much.
(d) A mistake in the statistics of what is actually produced.

5. What was Einstein's position in a nutshell?
(a) Intellectuals will finally triumph.
(b) War is useless.
(c) Isolationism is best.
(d) Mere agreements to limit armaments furnish no security.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Einstein view property, outward success and luxury?

2. On what date did Einstein write to The Prussian Academy of Sciences telling them why he would not put in a "good word" on the part of the German people?

3. Einstein compared the situation of the scientific world of his time to which Bible story?

4. What is the silently accepted motto of people having no civil courage?

5. What evoked religious notions in primitive man according to Einstein?

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