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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. What do the intellectual élite lack?
(a) The cohesion to attack contemporary problems.
(b) The foresight to make practical decisions.
(c) Compassion for those of lesser ilk.
(d) The ability to understand basic causes.

2. Though one man choosing to be a conscientious objector would accomplish little, what would accomplish much?
(a) All the world leaders being "conscientious objectors."
(b) Einstein is not sure.
(c) All women asking their husbands, brothers and father to choose not to fight.
(d) Fifty thousand conscientious objectors.

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

4. Who "frees" space from rigidity?
(a) Newton.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Planck.
(d) Reimann.

5. With what is Judaism concerned?
(a) The proper worship of God.
(b) The hope of the afterlife.
(c) The return of Jews to their homeland.
(d) Moral attitudes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Einstein's response to the demands of the academies?

2. What is the starting point for the concept of space?

3. For what has Einstein worked his entire life?

4. What is valued more in Europe than in the United States?

5. What does Einstein think will restore the heart of the Jewish people?

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