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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 is Einstein's response to the demands of the academies?
(a) To sue them for his pay and benefits.
(b) That his research notes are his own.
(c) Refusal.
(d) That he will work for any country he desires.

2. Neither intelligence nor institutions can substitute for what?
(a) A new homeland for the Jews.
(b) A life that is safe.
(c) Understanding, justice, and willingness to help others.
(d) Military aid to save the Jews.

3. What has science not done?
(a) Given humankind the means to achieve an end to war.
(b) Given humankind a sense of purpose.
(c) Freed people from religious heresy.
(d) Freed people from superstition.

4. For what must general laws be valid?
(a) For all natural phenomena.
(b) For collorary specifics.
(c) Only for observable phenomenon.
(d) For other related general laws.

5. What will force even the most reactionary scientists to cooperate?
(a) War.
(b) Economic pressures.
(c) The desire for knowledge.
(d) Political pressure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einstein warn the Progressive Education Association?

2. Whose work shatters the framework of classical mechanics and provides the basis for further research in physics?

3. What is the is the hidden evil power behind nationalism everywhere?

4. How does Einstein characterize the first ten years of the Jewish presence in Palestine?

5. What guards Jews from social and psychological problems?

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