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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 as rigid and absolute as Newton's space?
(a) The theory of constants.
(b) The idea of ionic space.
(c) The theroy of relativity.
(d) The idea of non-space.

2. What does Einstein laud in "Congratulations to a Critic"?
(a) The ability to understand without criticizing.
(b) The ability to receive criticism without sulking.
(c) The abillity to use criticism constructively.
(d) The ability to think independently.

3. How does Einstein characterize the women of America?
(a) As cyphers.
(b) As a millstone around the necks of their husbands.
(c) As rejecting advances.
(d) As intellectually inferior.

4. What essay opens Part 4?
(a) "Manifesto--March, 1939."
(b) "Manifesto of the Chosen."
(c) "Mainifesto to Peace, March, 1943."
(d) "Peace at What Cost, March, 1941."

5. Upon what is the special theory of relativity based?
(a) The constant of the speed of light.
(b) The way light moves through matter.
(c) The relative positions of space.
(d) The way light moves in space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einstein value in the German system of government?

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

3. What do the intellectual élite lack?

4. What does Einstein believe will not move humanity forward?

5. What does quantum theory offer in the way of spatial relationships?

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