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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. Why does Einstein refuse the demands?
(a) It is counter to what he has worked for his whole life.
(b) The notes came from his own mind and no one else's.
(c) It is unreasonable.
(d) He has earned his pay and retirement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is as rigid and absolute as Newton's space?

2. For what must general laws be valid?

3. When does Einstein get in touch with his Jewish heritage?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Einstein says Kepler and Galileo "ripened" mankind for science. How did they do that?

2. What is Einstein's opinion of what Zionism has done but what does he think is better?

3. What does Einstein Jews have been in the past two thousand years and what did they lack? What are they trying to establish now?

4. What caused an exchange of correspondence between Einstein and the Prussian and Bavarian academies of science in 1933?

5. What does the theory of relativity say is probable about two and three dimensional space?

6. Why did Einstein put mathematics above other sciences?

7. Why does he say the protest might be better without him?

8. What does Einstein say a theorist must do?

9. Why didn't Einstein join a French rally against German anti-Semitism?

10. What are volunteers doing in Israel during Einstein's time?

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