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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most important part of school for Einstein's multi-cultural friends at his new school?
(a) Being away from their families.
(b) Parties.
(c) Learning.
(d) A diploma.

2. What does Einstein's famous formula mean?
(a) Energy equals motion times the speed of light.
(b) Energy equals mass times the speed of sound cubed.
(c) Energy equals motion times the speed of sound squared.
(d) Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

3. What does Einstein say he thinks is the result of seeing the charm on his father's watch?
(a) First arouses his interest in science.
(b) Drives him to study geology.
(c) Creates his curiosity.
(d) Makes him hate his father.

4. A boy in the coffee shop makes fun of Einstein as an absent-minded professor. How does the shop owner respond?
(a) He reproves the boy and says Einstein is the smartest man in the world.
(b) He ignores the comment.
(c) He throws the boy out of his shop.
(d) He laughs and joins in on the joke.

5. Chapter Five opens with Einstein presenting his paper on what?
(a) Theory of Celestial Bodies.
(b) Theory of Gravity.
(c) Theory of Relativity.
(d) Theory of Space Travel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What solution does Uncle Jake propose for Albert's difficulties in school?

2. Chapter Two ends with Mrs. Einstein expressing her desire that her son becomes what?

3. What kind of school does Albert attend in Chapter Two?

4. What does Einstein tell the boy from the porch that he remembers best about Munich?

5. Why does Hermann Einstein know more about science than the average businessman?

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