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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, pp. 290-377.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main theme of "To the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto"?
(a) That forgiveness must be offered those who attacked the Warsaw Ghetto.
(b) That heroes are the most unlikely people.
(c) That understanding must be offered those who attacked the Warsaw Ghetto.
(d) To laud those who fought in the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto.

2. How does a country enslave its citizens?
(a) Through economic deprivation.
(b) Through engendering mistrust amongst their citizens.
(c) Through the rationing of basic necessities.
(d) Through forced military service.

3. What makes it impossible for classical mechanics and field-theory to serve as a basis for physics?
(a) The attainment of cold fusion.
(b) Ions reduction.
(c) Electrical field theory.
(d) Light and electricity.

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

5. What does Einstein say about the League of Nations' Committee of Intellectual Cooperation?
(a) Its members are facists at best.
(b) It is full of hot air.
(c) It at least embodies the principle that "something must be done."
(d) It may eventually prove to be valuable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Concepts acquire content only when connected with what?

2. What would be for better than for a Jewish state to be created?

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

4. Towards what is the evolution of physics?

5. By what are inertia and weight both measured?

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