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

2. When was the declaration of the Prussian Academy of Sciences against Einstein written?
(a) April 1, 1934.
(b) April 1, 1933.
(c) April 1, 1931.
(d) April 1, 1932.

3. What has little place in the life of America as compared with Europe, according to Einstein?
(a) the visual arts and music.
(b) science and mathematics.
(c) religion and theology.
(d) psychology and psychiatry.

4. In Einstein's opinion what is the Jewish outlook in the philosophical sense?
(a) The Jewish outlook, philosophically speaking, is pessimistic.
(b) The Jewish outlook is one of pre-determination.
(c) Philosophically speaking there is no specific Jewish outlook.
(d) The Jewish outlook is one of optimism.

5. At the time Einstein wrote this book which two U.S. products represented "real" overproduction, production exceeding the demand?
(a) appliances and paper goods
(b) meat and vegetables
(c) cars and wheat
(d) milk and corn

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom shouldn't we leave the struggle against armaments and against the war spirit according to Einstein?

2. What was one reason Einstein didn't associate himself with the French Manifesto against anti-Semitism?

3. Which country did Einstein use as an example for the Jews to follow in the construction of Palestine?

4. What was one of the propositions of the League of Nations?

5. Einstein compared the situation of the scientific world of his time to which Bible story?

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