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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Part III Einstein compared the psychic distemper of a society with what?
(a) a rapidly-spreading epidemic.
(b) an inner revolution.
(c) a rabid dog.
(d) the psychic distemper of an individual.

2. What was Lorentz' "unspoken but faithfully followed advice"?
(a) "To Thine Own Self Be True".
(b) "Survival of the Fittest".
(c) "Virtue is its own reward".
(d) "Not mastery but service".

3. What is Einstein's political ideal?
(a) communism
(b) democracy
(c) egalitarianism
(d) socialism

4. Where did Einstein and his best friend hold long conversations for 10 years or more during his stay in Berlin?
(a) in his friend's garden.
(b) on a yacht.
(c) at the university.
(d) in a cafe house.

5. What was the cultural flowering of the Italian Renaissance based on?
(a) the liberation and comparative isolation of the individual.
(b) rich patrons who supported struggling artists.
(c) portraying the scriptures in painting and sculpture.
(d) the beauty of the Italian landscape and aid of the Pope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did Einstein give for resigning from The Prussian Academy of Sciences?

2. What elevates a man and enriches his nature, in Einstein's opinion?

3. What did the German scientific academies do that Einstein deplored?

4. Dr. Solf was the pillar of what college?

5. Who did Einstein consider the greatest and noblest man of his times?

(see the answer key)

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