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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What guards Jews from social and psychological problems?
(a) The ghetto.
(b) Understanding of the Talmud.
(c) A strong family life.
(d) A good education.

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

5. What does Einstein think will restore the heart of the Jewish people?
(a) Reparations from Germany.
(b) The Jewish people re-discovering their faith in God.
(c) A homeland in Palestine.
(d) Apologies from all the nations who refused to admit Jewish refugees.

6. What is the "ether" idea invented by earlier scientists?
(a) A way to slow down the movement of electrons rotating around the nucleas.
(b) The matter in which electrical current shocks someone.
(c) A medium pervading space as a vehicle for electromagnetic and light phenomena..
(d) A means of putting electrons into a suspended state.

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

8. What is Einstein explaining in "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" ?
(a) His rationale for why the Germans are doing what they are doing.
(b) His refusal to participate in a meeting against Anti-Semitism.
(c) His concern that there is a rally against Ant-Semitism.
(d) His suggestion of changing the date and time of the meeting.

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. For what must general laws be valid?
(a) For other related general laws.
(b) Only for observable phenomenon.
(c) For all natural phenomena.
(d) For collorary specifics.

11. What does Einstein say the German people used to believe?
(a) That God was just and treated all humans equally.
(b) That the people held the power, not the leaders.
(c) That Europe was its friend.
(d) The same ideals Einstein has worked for his entire life.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Einstein say about the theory of relativity?

2. What is Einstein's response to the demands of the academies?

3. According to Einstein, what must Jews continue to do?

4. What do Faraday/Maxwell show exist in "free space"?

5. In what decade does Einstein write "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" ?

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