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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. What do the academies not regret?

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

3. What new physical reality does Faraday introduce?

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

5. Who "frees" space from rigidity?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Einstein put mathematics above other sciences?

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

4. What are volunteers doing in Israel during Einstein's time?

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

6. What does Einstein say Jews must do now?

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

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

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

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

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 attempts to explain the basis of anti-Semitism. Discuss one of the following:

1. Why does Einstein think many hate Jews? Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not?

2. Do you think hatred and genocide of any group of people is ever justified? Explain. Do you think anti-Semitism still exists in the United States? Explain.

3. Do you think the Jewish people have any responsibility for the Arab attitude towards them in the 21st century? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Einstein gives the reader an overview of his philosophy of life in the essay, "The World as I See It." Discuss one of the following:

1. Discuss Einstein's opinions of three topics. Do you agree or disagree with him? Why?

2. Compare and contrast Einstein's opinions from this essay with what you might imagine he would think today in the 21st century. How do you think his opinions would change? Would remain the same? Explain fully.

3. Discuss how you think Einstein's view on several topics from this essay informs his life as a scientist.

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