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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Einstein, what must Jews continue to do?
(a) Enoble the human race.
(b) Be patient.
(c) Be diligent.
(d) Be just.
2. What correspondence does Einstein present in this part?
(a) Between him and the president of the United States.
(b) Between him and Prussian and Bavarian academies of science .
(c) Between him and his mentor.
(d) Between him and his wife.
3. To whom do the scientific academies declare their loyalties?
(a) The truth.
(b) Impartial research.
(c) Scientific principles.
(d) The State.
4. What does Einstein say the German people used to believe?
(a) That God was just and treated all humans equally.
(b) That Europe was its friend.
(c) That the people held the power, not the leaders.
(d) The same ideals Einstein has worked for his entire life.
5. What is one thing Einstein says Jews must do?
(a) Treat the Arabs as equals.
(b) Gain self respect.
(c) Learn to accept differences among those already in Palestine.
(d) Gain revenge on those who have murdered them.
6. What does the theory of relativity resemble?
(a) A helix.
(b) A two-story building.
(c) A circle.
(d) A question and answer format.
7. Where is the "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" being held?
(a) England.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.
8. How does the inertia of a given body grow?
(a) Through the exertion of the time/space continuum.
(b) With an increase in gravitational pull.
(c) By expanding beyond the known borders of the Universe.
(d) As more "ponderable masses" come into proximity.
9. Neither intelligence nor institutions can substitute for what?
(a) Military aid to save the Jews.
(b) A life that is safe.
(c) A new homeland for the Jews.
(d) Understanding, justice, and willingness to help others.
10. What does Inertia cause?
(a) Circulation to be greatest just beyond the place of greatest curvature.
(b) Lassitude.
(c) A slow-down in electron movement the closer one is to the gravitation pull of the sun.
(d) A tendency to move faster once propeled.
11. Besides pure logical thinking what else is required to attain knowledge of the empirical world?
(a) The right equipment to prove theories.
(b) Experience.
(c) Experiments.
(d) Faith.
12. Concepts acquire content only when connected with what?
(a) Other events prior to the event horizon.
(b) Sensible experience.
(c) Other events past the event horizon.
(d) The content of another dimension.
13. With what is this section primarily concerned?
(a) Einstein's scientific theories.
(b) How science and religion can co-exist.
(c) Why Jewish people are model citizens.
(d) Why Jewish people tend to be good scientists.
14. What prevents Jews from giving blind obeisance to any moral authority?
(a) The commands of the Torah.
(b) The education of their people.
(c) A strong critical spirit.
(d) The value Jews place on individualism.
15. Why does Einstein put mathematics above other sciences?
(a) Because he is in the final analysis a mathematician.
(b) Because its propositions are beyond debate and not steadily evolving.
(c) Because mathematics is the only true art.
(d) Because mathematics is pure logic.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Einstein explaining in "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" ?
2. What is the main theme of "To the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto"?
3. What is the goal of the Jewish people in Palestine?
4. What is one thing Einstein says about Zionism?
5. What is the "ether" idea invented by earlier scientists?
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