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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. The Einsteins come to the conclusion that they should divorce. What does the author say about their relationship after the divorce?
(a) They hate each other.
(b) They ignore each other.
(c) They remain friends.
(d) They cannot stand living together.

2. 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.

3. Albert's mother usually lets him stay up late to listen to music, but tonight she sends him to bed. Why?
(a) His cheeks are flushed and she's worried he is getting a fever.
(b) She is tired of answering his questions.
(c) He is misbehaving all day.
(d) He is late for supper.

4. Einstein's responses to the people he meets during the course of chapter one suggest what about his character?
(a) No one knows who he is.
(b) He thinks the other citizens are dumb and makes fun of them.
(c) He knows he is smarter than everyone else, and goes out of his way to show it.
(d) He is known and respected by everyone, and doesn't think he's better than others.

5. During Chapter Two, Albert tells his father that he wants something specific for his upcoming birthday. What is it?
(a) A chemistry set.
(b) A compass.
(c) A horse.
(d) A baseball bat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Einstein is most interested in what part of being a professor?

2. Why is the hometown of the boy waiting on the porch significant to Einstein?

3. After Albert is asked not to return to his school, Hermann tells his son that he can't support him anymore. Why?

4. What is the most important part of school for Einstein's multi-cultural friends at his new school?

5. The author says that Albert and Maja resemble each other strongly except for one feature. What is different about the children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what happens to the group of German astronomers who plan to check Einstein's theory on light rays by observing a total eclipse.

2. Describe Pauline Einstein. What kind of woman is she?

3. What does Einstein's theory of relativity have to do with Michelson and Morley's experiment?

4. Why does Mileva decide not to move with her husband to Berlin?

5. What does the reader learn about Albert from his questions about his father's compass?

6. In Chapter Two, Pauline Einstein thinks that Albert is ill and sends him to bed early. What brings about the change in Albert's appearance, and why does his mother mistake it for illness?

7. Why is Einstein sometimes called the Newton of the twentieth century?

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

9. Why is young Einstein disgusted with his music teacher? Explain.

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

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