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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Neither intelligence nor institutions can substitute for what?
(a) A life that is safe.
(b) Understanding, justice, and willingness to help others.
(c) Military aid to save the Jews.
(d) A new homeland for the Jews.

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

3. What is one thing Einstein says about Zionism?
(a) That it is an evil tyranny that is as bad as the situation the Jews left.
(b) That it is one small step towards integration with the Arabs to share the land.
(c) That its vision is dubious.
(d) That it must be not a political movement but a realization of the social ideal of the Bible.

4. What do the academies not regret?
(a) Einstein's expulsion.
(b) Einstein's resignation.
(c) The resignation of several key members.
(d) Searching for the truth.

5. To whom do the scientific academies declare their loyalties?
(a) The truth.
(b) Scientific principles.
(c) Impartial research.
(d) The State.

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

7. Besides pure logical thinking what else is required to attain knowledge of the empirical world?
(a) Faith.
(b) Experience.
(c) Experiments.
(d) The right equipment to prove theories.

8. What do friends and foes alike say the Jews represent?
(a) A race whose behaviors are hereditary.
(b) A step forward in human evolution.
(c) The ideal to which other peoples should strive.
(d) A group of people united by beliefs rather than genetics.

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

10. With what is Judaism concerned?
(a) The return of Jews to their homeland.
(b) The proper worship of God.
(c) Moral attitudes.
(d) The hope of the afterlife.

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

12. How does Einstein characterize the newly-formed State of Israel?
(a) As just another government that falsely assumes safety is to be found in military might.
(b) As infantile in its political acumen.
(c) That it conforms as closely as possible with the ethical ideals of peace, understanding, and self-restraint.
(d) As wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove.

13. According to Einstein, what must Jews continue to do?
(a) Be patient.
(b) Be diligent.
(c) Be just.
(d) Enoble the human race.

14. How does the inertia of a given body grow?
(a) By expanding beyond the known borders of the Universe.
(b) As more "ponderable masses" come into proximity.
(c) Through the exertion of the time/space continuum.
(d) With an increase in gravitational pull.

15. What would be for better than for a Jewish state to be created?
(a) For Jews to be willing to live under Arab rule.
(b) For Jews to reassimilate peacefully into their homelands.
(c) For Jews and Arabs to live together peacefully.
(d) For Jews to have their own state and government within many countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are elite volunteers doing?

2. What has revived the sense of community, saved many lives, and provided joyous and creative work?

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

4. Why should Judaism not be called a religion?

5. At the time Einstein writes "Why Do They Hate the Jews?" what percentage of the world population is Jewish?

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