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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. In what decade is Einstein writing his correspondence with the science academies?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1940s.
(d) The 1920s.

2. What has too much influence on public thought?
(a) The educational system.
(b) The government.
(c) The church.
(d) The press.

3. What does Anti-Semitism means?
(a) Being for disarmament.
(b) Being against academic institutions.
(c) Prejudice towards Jewish People.
(d) Prejudice towards Semite people.

4. What puzzles Einstein about one aspect of the American economy?
(a) The lack of a savings plan.
(b) The high tariffs on foreign goods.
(c) That the cost of labor is so high in comparison to goods produced.
(d) The fact that paper money is not backed by gold and silver.

5. What is one thing Schrödinger is not able to show?
(a) How the theory of relativity relies upon the speed of light as its constant.
(b) Associate definite motions of mass points with the waves as intended.
(c) Why waves and points do not coincide.
(d) How waves and particles emote consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what do great men have little effect?

2. What is essential to the study of physics?

3. What prevents Jews from giving blind obeisance to any moral authority?

4. What is one requirement for Einstein for living in a country?

5. With what is this section primarily concerned?

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