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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. According to Einstein, what must Jews strive to be?
(a) Civilized Europeans and good citizens.
(b) A beacon of light to an uncivilized world.
(c) Strong enough to withstand persecution.
(d) Benevolent guardians of both Jew and Arabs.

2. What has revived the sense of community, saved many lives, and provided joyous and creative work?
(a) Zionism.
(b) The Jewish Ghettos.
(c) The United States opening their borders to Jewish emmigrants.
(d) The hope of a future.

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

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

5. What do the academies demand of Einstein?
(a) That he says something good about the German people to the rest of the world.
(b) That he forfeits his pay and retirement.
(c) That he not work for any other country.
(d) That he gives them reserach he conducted for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what has Einstein worked his entire life?

2. What does Inertia cause?

3. What does the theory of relativity resemble?

4. What does quantum theory offer in the way of spatial relationships?

5. What is the goal of the Jewish people in Palestine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Einstein say a theorist must do?

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

3. What does Einstein say Jews must do now?

4. What does Einstein say about the Jews who died in the Warsaw Ghetto battles?

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

6. How does Einstein see the change in Jews towards Palestine?

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

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

9. What do the Academies demand that Einstein deplores?

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

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