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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 as rigid and absolute as Newton's space?
(a) The theroy of relativity.
(b) The idea of non-space.
(c) The theory of constants.
(d) The idea of ionic space.

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

3. Neither intelligence nor institutions can substitute for what?
(a) Military aid to save the Jews.
(b) A life that is safe.
(c) Understanding, justice, and willingness to help others.
(d) A new homeland for the Jews.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens if there are no general laws?

2. According to Einstein, what must Jews strive to be?

3. Why should Judaism not be called a religion?

4. Why does Einstein put mathematics above other sciences?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Einstein say a theorist must do?

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

5. What does Einstein say is the essential character of the Jews as a group and what is their contribution to the world?

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

7. What do the Academies demand that Einstein deplores?

8. What do the academies say about their loyalties and how do they feel about his resignation?

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

10. Why does Einstein admire Kepler?

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