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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Germany use to justify atrocities against the Jews?
(a) Fabricated crimes committed by the Jewish people.
(b) That the Jews are not a religious but rather racial group of 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.

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

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

5. How does Einstein characterize his treatment when he lived in Germany earlier?
(a) He was treated well.
(b) He was often subject to unwarrented interrogations.
(c) He was treated poorly.
(d) He was often subject to physical abuse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Why does Einstein think the protest will do better without his participation?
(a) It will have a greater air of impartiality.
(b) The Germans will not think he incited them.
(c) It will be attended by more people.
(d) The Germans will not be hostile towards Einstein as a result.

15. What does Einstein say about the theory of relativity?
(a) It is a relatively new theory that has only come into existence since the last expansion of the Universe.
(b) It is non-revolutionary and non-speculative.
(c) Until absolutely proven, it is all speculation.
(d) It holds the key to understanding who God is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevents Jews from giving blind obeisance to any moral authority?

2. What new physical reality does Faraday introduce?

3. What does Newton introduce in his ideas?

4. What does Einstein think will restore the heart of the Jewish people?

5. In what decade is Einstein writing his correspondence with the science academies?

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