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

2. With what is Judaism concerned?

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

4. How does Einstein characterize his treatment when he lived in Germany earlier?

5. What guards Jews from social and psychological problems?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do the Academies demand that Einstein deplores?

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

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

10. Why does Einstein admire Kepler?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Though Einstein is most noted as a physicist, much of what he writes in this text would not seem out of place in a sociology journal. Discuss the following:

1. Do you believe that just because Einstein is a brilliant physicist, it means that brilliance should be valued in areas that are very different from physics and the hard sciences?

2. What do you think would be a synthesis of Einstein's world view of humanity?

3. Which do you value most in Einstein's contribution to humanity--his views on social culture or his contributions in the field of physics and hard science? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Einstein writes his opinions on education in several essays. Discuss one of the following:

1. Discuss and analyze three major ideas Einstein has about education.

2. How are Einstein's ideas about education still used today? Or not? Discuss with examples.

3. Discuss what a school would be like that uses all of Einstein's ideas about education

Essay Topic 3

Einstein says that most theories in physics build a picture of complex phenomena out of materials in a relatively simple "formal scheme" using an "analytic" rather than "synthetic" method. Discuss the following:

1. Briefly explain what you think Einstein means by the above statement. Give examples from the text and/or your own knowledge.

2. What do you think is the difference between an analytic method versus a synthetic method. Give examples of each method.

3. How do you think the term "formal scheme" is used in this statement?

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