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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. To what does a fable about a shepherd boy, a horse, and a stag relate?
(a) To astrology.
(b) To Germany, the Nazis, and the Jews.
(c) To Jesus, Jews and Hitler.
(d) To a nomadic way of life and astrology.

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

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

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

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

11. What are elite volunteers doing?
(a) Displacing Arab settlements to gain their lands.
(b) Transforming the desert into flourishing settlements.
(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.

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

13. In what decade does Einstein write "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" ?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) First decade of 20th century.

14. What is a second requirement for Einstein for living in a country?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Justice for those who are oppressed.
(c) Intolerance for others who do not adhere to Jewish ideals.
(d) The pursuit of happiness ideal.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the theory of relativity resemble?

3. What does Einstein say the German people used to believe?

4. For what does Einstein admire Kepler?

5. Why should Judaism not be called a religion?

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