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

2. What does Germany use to justify atrocities against the Jews?

3. Why should Judaism not be called a religion?

4. What new physical reality does Faraday introduce?

5. Where is the "A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism" being held?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Academies demand that Einstein deplores?

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Einstein put mathematics above other sciences?

7. What does Einstein say a theorist must do?

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

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

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

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

In "The Religious Spirit of Science" (1934), Einstein claims that all profound scientists are religious, but not religiously naïve. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think Einstein means by the above statement? Use any of the text throughout the book to explain.

2. Do you agree with the above statement? Explain fully your stance. Use any of the text throughout the book to explain.

3. Do you see any conflict between religion and science? Use any of the text throughout the book to support your statements as well as your personal experience.

Essay Topic 3

Einstein has met and become friends and/or colleagues with a number of notable people, many of whom he discusses in this book. Discuss he following:

1. Choose three people whom Einstein mentions positively and give a brief idea of his opinions about those three people (or stereotypes).

2. Choose three people whom Einstein mentions negatively and give a brief idea of his opinions about those three people (or stereotypes).

3. Judging what Einstein says about different people in his text, how would you characterize him as a friend? As a colleague?

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