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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, pp. 217-290.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what are Einstein's inner and outer lives based?
(a) The tenets of Christianity.
(b) The contemplation of infinity.
(c) The efforts towards understanding.
(d) The efforts of other men.

2. Concepts acquire content only when connected with what?
(a) Sensible experience.
(b) Other events past the event horizon.
(c) Other events prior to the event horizon.
(d) The content of another dimension.

3. How does Einstein characterize the House Un-American Activities Committee?
(a) With the highest respect.
(b) As a group of men doing a necessary cleansing.
(c) As the lapdog of facism.
(d) As a modern inquisitional institution.

4. In what decade does Einstein write "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" ?
(a) 1940s.
(b) First decade of 20th century.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1920s.

5. What does Einstein warn the Progressive Education Association?
(a) That education is worthless without morality.
(b) That progress without deliberation leads to becoming mired in legality.
(c) That teaching pacifism without spurning militarism is unrealistic.
(d) That progress without intention is disasterous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the academies demand of Einstein?

2. In what year is "Religion and Science: Irreconcilable?" written?

3. Why does Einstein put mathematics above other sciences?

4. What is Einstein explaining in "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" ?

5. What is the "ether" idea invented by earlier scientists?

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