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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Concepts acquire content only when connected with what?
(a) Sensible experience.
(b) Other events prior to the event horizon.
(c) Other events past the event horizon.
(d) The content of another dimension.

2. With what is this section primarily concerned?
(a) Why Jewish people are model citizens.
(b) Einstein's scientific theories.
(c) How science and religion can co-exist.
(d) Why Jewish people tend to be good scientists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. To what is attributed ideals of social justice, mutual aid, philanthropy, tolerance and the exaltation of intellectual aspiration and spiritual effort?
(a) To human beings in their most perfected state.
(b) The ideals of a benevolent sovereign nation.
(c) As the essential character of Jews as a group.
(d) As the ideals to which all humanity must strive.

10. When does Einstein get in touch with his Jewish heritage?
(a) After going to Germany.
(b) After attending Jewish seminary.
(c) He does from an early age.
(d) He never really does.

11. What is the third requirement for living in a country?
(a) Equality under the law.
(b) Non-prejudism.
(c) Simple social structure.
(d) Cooperative people.

12. What is the starting point for the concept of space?
(a) The alpha point.
(b) The quark space.
(c) The omega point.
(d) The interval.

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

14. Where is the "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" being held?
(a) England.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

15. What has revived the sense of community, saved many lives, and provided joyous and creative work?
(a) The Jewish Ghettos.
(b) The United States opening their borders to Jewish emmigrants.
(c) Zionism.
(d) The hope of a future.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you characterize Einstein's beliefs in this section of the book?

2. What do friends and foes alike say the Jews represent?

3. For what does Einstein admire Kepler?

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

5. Why does Einstein think the protest will do better without his participation?

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