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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 Jew had great aims for Palestine and Zionism according to Einstein?
(a) Heifetz.
(b) Leonard Bernstein.
(c) Elie Wiesel.
(d) Herzl.

2. What famous French legal case did Einstein use to illustrate his decision not to associate with the French Manifesto against anti-Semitism?
(a) the Monsieur Harlecoute case.
(b) the Marie Antoinette case.
(c) the Devil's Island case.
(d) the Dreyfus case.

3. Einstein called the League of Nations not much more than a what?
(a) fiasco.
(b) pipe dream.
(c) weak attempt.
(d) meeting hall.

4. What were the names of the two secretaries of the Prussian Academy of Sciences who signed the Academy's answer to Einstein?
(a) H. von Ficker and E. Heymann.
(b) H. von Hofsmannsthal and E. Lessing.
(c) H. von Pueschner and E. Heidegger.
(d) F. von Edelmann and E. Heinemann.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is limitation of armaments and rules for the conduct of war not a workable plan according to Einstein?

2. At the time Einstein wrote this book which two U.S. products represented "real" overproduction, production exceeding the demand?

3. To whom did Einstein write about the sacredness of the pursuit of scientific truth requesting protection of Italian scholars.

4. What was another reason Einstein gave for not associating himself with the French Manifesto against anti-Semitism?

5. At the beginning of Part III Einstein compared the psychic distemper of a society with what?

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