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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. What kind of school does Albert attend in Chapter Two?
(a) Public.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Protestant.

2. After dinner, Albert claims he'll be able to sleep better if he can take what to bed?
(a) A glass of water.
(b) The compass.
(c) A warm blanket.
(d) His teddy bear.

3. What reason does Hermann give for moving his family to Munich?
(a) His parents are close by.
(b) He needs a job.
(c) He wants his son to get a good education.
(d) His wife is happier there.

4. In his spare time from work at the patent office, what does Einstein invent?
(a) A better way to measure gravity.
(b) A new way to calculate distance.
(c) A formula to measure the energy of the sun.
(d) A device for measuring small electric charges.

5. What does Einstein's theory tell us about time and space?
(a) Neither of them change.
(b) Neither of them matter.
(c) Neither of them are measurable.
(d) Neither go on forever in the same fixed way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Uncle Jake feel when Albert admits how he feels about school?

2. What reason does Albert give when asked why he doesn't ask his teachers questions?

3. Miss Dukas reproves Einstein for doing what toward the end of Chapter One?

4. Shortly after the Einstein family relocates to Prague, Einstein is offered a full professorship where?

5. Toward the end of Chapter Seven, Einstein's theory is finally ______.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe young Albert Einstein's feelings about school.

2. Why does Hermann Einstein say that an education is so important? He mentions that "a Jew needs one to get along nowadays." To what situation is Hermann referring?

3. As Einstein starts receiving professorships, why is Mileva still frustrated with their financial situation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Is it easy or difficult to manage a child like Albert? Explain.

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