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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Einstein's assistant, Infeld, unable to answer a reporter's question on what Einstein thinks of the book they co-write?

2. In Hitler's eyes, Einstein is guilty because he is all BUT WHICH of the following?

3. Einstein receives several gifts as he prepares to leave the US. What is his attitude toward these gifts?

4. In Chapter Fourteen, some of Einstein's colleagues ask him to set up a meeting with ________ to discuss their work on the atom bomb.

5. Who comes to live with Einstein early in Chapter Fourteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Einstein give for wishing to cooperate particularly with American scientists?

2. Explain Einstein's worries about the German Republic and his disturbing revelation in Marseilles.

3. Why are the Einsteins happier in California than on other trips? What is different?

4. Why does Einstein finally decide to settle in America?

5. What does the reader learn about Einstein's tastes, based on his reaction to the quarters on the ship reserves for him?

6. Why is Einstein no longer a pacifist in Chapter Fourteen?

7. Einstein wins a Nobel Prize for physics in 1922, but not for his theory on relativity. For what work is he given the Nobel, and why is relativity not included?

8. What does Einstein's behavior after Elsa's death in Chapter Thirteen tell the reader about him? Is he insensitive?

9. Einstein asks an American diplomat why the U.S. does not try to end Japan's aggressions in China with a boycott. Explain the diplomat's response and Einstein's feelings about the response.

10. Why do some Berlin scientists imply that Einstein is a traitor to his country?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of woman is Mileva Maritsch? Does the author present her fairly? Compare and contrast the author's portrait of Mileva with your own research. In what ways are the accounts of her similar, and in what ways do they differ?

Essay Topic 2

What impact does Einstein's theory have in areas other than science? What philosophers use his work, and for what purposes?

Essay Topic 3

Einstein builds on Newton's ideas. Pick one modern-day scientist who makes a career of building on Einstein's ideas, and discuss the ways in which Einstein's theories are updated from the 20th to the 21st century.

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