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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does a fable about a shepherd boy, a horse, and a stag relate?

2. What does Einstein say the German people used to believe?

3. What are elite volunteers doing?

4. How does the inertia of a given body grow?

5. What is one requirement for Einstein for living in a country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Einstein say a theorist must do?

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

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

4. Why does Einstein admire Kepler?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Einstein say Judaism is not a religion?

10. What does Einstein say he will only live under?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Einstein, in his essays about the Jewish people, considers himself a strong supporter of Zionism. Discuss one of the following:

1. Define Zionism and discuss its origins.

2. Discuss both some positive and negative characteristics of Zionism. Give examples.

3. Discuss whether or not you believe Zionism is the best solution for the needs of the Jewish people at the time the believers in Zionism create a Jewish state.

Essay Topic 2

Einstein says that technology has made international peace a matter of life and death and an ethical imperative for everyone. Discuss the following:

1. Why does Einstein make the above statement? Analyze what Einstein means using examples.

2. Do you think international peace was possible in the time Einstein writes this? What about now? Why or why not?

3. What technology was present in the time Einstein wrote this that could be a matter of life and death? What about now?

Essay Topic 3

1. What are some positive aspects of science and technology?

2. What are some dangers created by science and technology?

3. Do you think science and technology mean the same thing today as it did at the time Einstein writes this book?

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