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

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

3. How would you characterize Einstein's beliefs in this section of the book?
(a) Uncertain.
(b) Harsh.
(c) Strong and unwavering.
(d) Intimidating

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

5. What correspondence does Einstein present in this part?
(a) Between him and the president of the United States.
(b) Between him and his wife.
(c) Between him and his mentor.
(d) Between him and Prussian and Bavarian academies of science .

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Einstein characterize the first ten years of the Jewish presence in Palestine?

3. What does Newton introduce in his ideas?

4. What is a second requirement for Einstein for living in a country?

5. What would be for better than for a Jewish state to be created?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Einstein say a theorist must do?

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

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

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

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

8. What do the Academies demand that Einstein deplores?

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

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

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