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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Germany".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What accusation by the Prussian Academy of Sciences did Einstein feel was slanderous?
(a) that he was a snob and an elitist.
(b) that he had taken part in atrocity-mongering against Germany.
(c) that he was disloyal to the future of Science.
(d) that wrote bogus scientific papers.

2. What are the ideals which have lighted Einstein's way and given him courage to face life cheerfully?
(a) Brotherhood, Liberty and Equality.
(b) Truth, Goodness and Beauty.
(c) Justice, Empathy and Wisdom.
(d) Equality, Science and Enlightenment.

3. How did Einstein describe what was happening to the German people with regard to their anti-Semitism?
(a) despicable.
(b) mass-psychosis.
(c) intolerable.
(d) outrageous.

4. What Irish writer did Einstein esteem for his subtle humor and knowledge of human nature?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) George Bernard Shaw.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) James Joyce.

5. What is the silently accepted motto of people having no civil courage?
(a) "Leave it alone and don't speak of it."
(b) "War in inevitable."
(c) "What's the use?"
(d) "It will be worked out somehow."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the problem forced on Einstein's Berlin surgeon friend out of the necessities of his practice?

2. To which famous psychologist did Einstein write?

3. What fundamental emotion stands at the cradle of true art and true science?

4. Why were the laws of Prohibition destructive laws according to Einstein?

5. What philosopher said: "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will" , a saying which inspired Einstein from his youth up?

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