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

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

3. According to Einstein, what must Jews continue to do?
(a) Be diligent.
(b) Be just.
(c) Be patient.
(d) Enoble the human race.

4. What does Germany use to justify atrocities against the Jews?
(a) The fact that the Jews are not native Germans.
(b) Fabricated crimes committed by the Jewish people.
(c) That the Jews are not a religious but rather racial group of people.
(d) That the Jews have more money than any other group in Germany and therefore must be greedy.

5. Why does Einstein put mathematics above other sciences?
(a) Because mathematics is pure logic.
(b) Because its propositions are beyond debate and not steadily evolving.
(c) Because he is in the final analysis a mathematician.
(d) Because mathematics is the only true art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What correspondence does Einstein present in this part?

2. How do the actions of the heroes of the battle of the Warsaw Ghetto help all Jewish people?

3. What does the theory of relativity resemble?

4. What essay opens Part 4?

5. Where is the "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" being held?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Einstein admire Kepler?

2. Why does the theory of relativity show how modern theoretical science develops?

3. What does Einstein say Judaism is concerned with and how can it be better?

4. What do the Academies demand that Einstein deplores?

5. What supports a finite universe and who doubts that?

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

7. What does Einstein say a theorist must do?

8. What does he say about what he has always fought for?

9. What does Einstein say Jews must do now?

10. What can be visualized about a finite universe that could make it appear infinite and what does infinite space mean?

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