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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. Why does Einstein think the protest will do better without his participation?
(a) It will have a greater air of impartiality.
(b) The Germans will not be hostile towards Einstein as a result.
(c) It will be attended by more people.
(d) The Germans will not think he incited them.

2. How does the inertia of a given body grow?
(a) By expanding beyond the known borders of the Universe.
(b) As more "ponderable masses" come into proximity.
(c) With an increase in gravitational pull.
(d) Through the exertion of the time/space continuum.

3. What is the "ether" idea invented by earlier scientists?
(a) A means of putting electrons into a suspended state.
(b) The matter in which electrical current shocks someone.
(c) A medium pervading space as a vehicle for electromagnetic and light phenomena..
(d) A way to slow down the movement of electrons rotating around the nucleas.

4. What are elite volunteers doing?
(a) Searching out other areas where they could create a nation that did not impact current inhabitants.
(b) Infiltrating Arab settlements in order to force them to move.
(c) Displacing Arab settlements to gain their lands.
(d) Transforming the desert into flourishing settlements.

5. When does Einstein get in touch with his Jewish heritage?
(a) After going to Germany.
(b) He does from an early age.
(c) He never really does.
(d) After attending Jewish seminary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the goal of the Jewish people in Palestine?

2. For what has Einstein worked his entire life?

3. What do Faraday/Maxwell show exist in "free space"?

4. What happens if there are no general laws?

5. Of what is Einstein accused by several scientific communities?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Einstein say is the essential character of the Jews as a group and what is their contribution to the world?

2. Why didn't Einstein join a French rally against German anti-Semitism?

3. What do the academies say about their loyalties and how do they feel about his resignation?

4. What does Einstein say he will only live under?

5. What are volunteers doing in Israel during Einstein's time?

6. What does Einstein Jews have been in the past two thousand years and what did they lack? What are they trying to establish now?

7. What caused an exchange of correspondence between Einstein and the Prussian and Bavarian academies of science in 1933?

8. Why did Einstein put mathematics above other sciences?

9. What does Einstein say Jews must do now?

10. Why does Einstein admire Kepler?

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