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

2. What was Einstein in favor of abolishing?
(a) technical advances.
(b) tax.
(c) large cities.
(d) politicians.

3. What about Einstein was in contrast to his passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility?
(a) his prejudice about certain people.
(b) his sense of detachment and need for solitude.
(c) his feeling that intellectuals were superior.
(d) his contempt for the masses.

4. Where did Einstein and his best friend hold long conversations for 10 years or more during his stay in Berlin?
(a) in his friend's garden.
(b) on a yacht.
(c) in a cafe house.
(d) at the university.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fundamental emotion stands at the cradle of true art and true science?

2. Which nation does Einstein feel helped to Balkanize Europe?

3. What did Einstein feel used to unite Europe as late as the 17th century?

4. What finally happens when businesses go smash?

5. What did Einstein feel had to be gradually abolished as the political organization of Europe was strengthened?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Einstein's opinion of political leaders and governments?

2. List one of the things the member States of the League of Nations should be bound to?

3. Describe Einstein's view of minorities; which one does he refer to at the end of Part II?

4. What was Einstein's alternative to compulsory military service and how would this be implemented?

5. What did Einstein remind himself of a hundred times a day?

6. According to Einstein what was religion based on for primitive man and what did it develop into?

7. What did the French Government decide to create and maintain?

8. What did Einstein admire about Dr. Solf?

9. What is Einstein's opinion of the military system?

10. What did Einstein think the true value of the human being is?

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