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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 guards Jews from social and psychological problems?

2. What prevents Jews from giving blind obeisance to any moral authority?

3. What new physical reality does Faraday introduce?

4. How do the actions of the heroes of the battle of the Warsaw Ghetto help all Jewish people?

5. What has revived the sense of community, saved many lives, and provided joyous and creative work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Einstein say a theorist must do?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

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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