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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. During dinner, Maja tells her parents that her brother likes to do what?
(a) Pick on other children.
(b) Play in the sand pile.
(c) Throw rocks at animals.
(d) Make up songs and sing them.

2. Who becomes Einstein's second wife?
(a) Maja.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Margot.
(d) Elsa.

3. What nickname do the boys at school give Albert?
(a) Honest John.
(b) Evil Einstein.
(c) Dumb Albie.
(d) Nosey Bertie.

4. Einstein moves his family into a small apartment to save money, and the children wake up covered in bites. What is biting them?
(a) Fleas.
(b) Rats.
(c) Bedbugs.
(d) Roaches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Hermann suggest his son ask about the compass?

2. What reason does Hermann give for moving his family to Munich?

3. At the opening of the book, what is the name of the street on which Einstein is walking?

4. In Chapter Two, the reader learns that Hermann Einstein does what for a living?

5. Einstein mentions that his father shows him a charm on a watch chain when he is about five. What is the charm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Einstein change his mind about granting the boy from the porch an interview?

2. The reader learns that Einstein's work eventually leads other scientists to create the atom bomb. Why?

3. Why does Einstein get along better with his peers at the University than he does with his schoolmates previously?

4. Describe Mr. Einstein's appearance at the opening of the book.

5. Why do Michelson and Morley assume that their experiments are a failure?

6. Why does the author specifically mention that Einstein answers the strange boy on the porch in German?

7. Explain Einstein's view, as stated in Chapter Seven, on how scientists should behave in the global community.

8. Describe Einstein's parents, Pauline and Hermann. What type of parents are they?

9. According to the author, why does young Einstein not fit in at his school?

10. Do the townspeople respect Einstein at the beginning of the book?

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