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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents Jews from giving blind obeisance to any moral authority?
(a) The education of their people.
(b) The commands of the Torah.
(c) A strong critical spirit.
(d) The value Jews place on individualism.

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

3. What does Inertia cause?
(a) Circulation to be greatest just beyond the place of greatest curvature.
(b) Lassitude.
(c) A slow-down in electron movement the closer one is to the gravitation pull of the sun.
(d) A tendency to move faster once propeled.

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

5. How does Einstein characterize the first ten years of the Jewish presence in Palestine?
(a) As a dismal failure.
(b) As about what expected.
(c) As grueling and discouraging.
(d) As exceeding all expectations.

6. How do the actions of the heroes of the battle of the Warsaw Ghetto help all Jewish people?
(a) They demonstrate the extreme situation and it will help other nations open their borders to the Jews.
(b) They show that Jewish people will fight.
(c) They are strengthening the bonds among Jews of all nations.
(d) They demonstrate the idea that attacking any Jew is at one's own peril.

7. What does the theory of relativity resemble?
(a) A question and answer format.
(b) A circle.
(c) A helix.
(d) A two-story building.

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

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

10. What new physical reality does Faraday introduce?
(a) The 5th dimension.
(b) The field.
(c) The reality of spirit.
(d) The rotuse.

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

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

13. For what does Einstein admire Kepler?
(a) For knowing when to look deeper into his theories.
(b) For workinhg out the laws of gravity.
(c) For standing by his ideas despite the inquisition.
(d) For working out the planetary motions with no one's support and the understanding of few.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What guards Jews from social and psychological problems?

2. What is the third requirement for living in a country?

3. What is one thing Einstein says about Zionism?

4. What do the academies not regret?

5. What happens if there are no general laws?

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