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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 "The Jews".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) "It will be worked out somehow."
(d) "What's the use?"

2. How does Einstein feel one does the best service to his fellowmen?
(a) by giving them some elevating work to do.
(b) by being a good example.
(c) by sharing one's goods with them.
(d) by teaching them.

3. What does Einstein believe prompted the development of the superior American technical devices and work organization?
(a) superior scientists and thinkers.
(b) better education in the schools.
(c) the high price of labor.
(d) abundance of money.

4. In what European city were the Solvay Congresses held in 1909 and 1912?
(a) Berlin
(b) London
(c) Paris
(d) Brussels

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the Prussian Academy of Sciences particularly upset at Einstein's statements?

2. What did Berliner describe a scientific author to be a cross between in his humorous riddle?

3. What was the primary duty of a scientific academy in Einstein's opinion?

4. On what basis did Einstein feel conscientious objectors must be protected?

5. What did the best of the Prophets and Jesus do according to Einstein?

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