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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. How many years did Einstein say in his Addresses on the Reconstruction of Palestine had passed since he had last made an address on the Zionist cause?
(a) 9 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 8 years.

2. What did Einstein consider would have been the repudiation of all the notions of justice and liberty for which he stood all his life?
(a) putting a "good word" in for the German people in 1933.
(b) giving up his German citizenship.
(c) becoming political since he felt politicians were corrupt.
(d) disowning his Jewish heritage.

3. How does Einstein view ease and happiness?
(a) the most important things in life.
(b) not as ends in themselves.
(c) things to be grateful for.
(d) things to strive toward.

4. What did the best of the Prophets and Jesus do according to Einstein?
(a) served God; served the living.
(b) were totally ethical.
(c) demonstrated material wealth.
(d) prophesied.

5. What is necessary to make the results of technical progress beneficial to all according to Einstein?
(a) strict laws.
(b) regulation and organization.
(c) economic prosperity.
(d) the welfare system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did H.A. Lorentz devote himself to?

2. Why did the intellectually elite not have a direct influence on the history of nations according to Einstein?

3. What are the Torah and Talmud to Einstein?

4. How did Einstein view property, outward success and luxury?

5. Einstein called the League of Nations not much more than a what?

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