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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What correspondence does Einstein present in this part?
(a) Between him and the president of the United States.
(b) Between him and his mentor.
(c) Between him and Prussian and Bavarian academies of science .
(d) Between him and his wife.

2. For what has Einstein worked his entire life?
(a) Justice and acceptance.
(b) Truth and fairness.
(c) Liberty and truth.
(d) Justice and liberty.

3. What does Einstein say is the greatest change in physics since Newton?
(a) The Planck theory.
(b) Edison's definition of ohms.
(c) Tesla's theory of voltage.
(d) Faraday/Maxwell's work on electromagnetic phenomena.

4. What happens if there are no general laws?
(a) Epirical facts lack value.
(b) The deductions are useless.
(c) Specifics are inaccurate.
(d) The masses will not understand the specifics.

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

6. What does truth applied to science or religion convey?
(a) That there is no truth.
(b) A lesser truth.
(c) A higher truth.
(d) Nothing clear.

7. What is one requirement for Einstein for living in a country?
(a) Hope.
(b) Military disarmament.
(c) Military might.
(d) Liberty.

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

9. What is a second requirement for Einstein for living in a country?
(a) Justice for those who are oppressed.
(b) The pursuit of happiness ideal.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Intolerance for others who do not adhere to Jewish ideals.

10. What is the result of the accusations by these scientific communities?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Einstein is expelled.
(c) Einstein forces the resignation of several key members.
(d) Einstein resigns.

11. At the time Einstein writes "Why Do They Hate the Jews?" what percentage of the world population is Jewish?
(a) 4 percent.
(b) 2.3 percent.
(c) Less than one percent.
(d) 10 percent.

12. What are elite volunteers doing?
(a) Transforming the desert into flourishing settlements.
(b) Searching out other areas where they could create a nation that did not impact current inhabitants.
(c) Displacing Arab settlements to gain their lands.
(d) Infiltrating Arab settlements in order to force them to move.

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

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

15. What does Germany use to justify atrocities against the Jews?
(a) That the Jews have more money than any other group in Germany and therefore must be greedy.
(b) The fact that the Jews are not native Germans.
(c) Fabricated crimes committed by the Jewish people.
(d) That the Jews are not a religious but rather racial group of people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Infinite space mean?

2. To what does a fable about a shepherd boy, a horse, and a stag relate?

3. What is one thing Einstein says Jews must do?

4. What does Einstein say the German people used to believe?

5. To what is attributed ideals of social justice, mutual aid, philanthropy, tolerance and the exaltation of intellectual aspiration and spiritual effort?

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