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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason did Einstein give for resigning from The Prussian Academy of Sciences?
(a) He didn't want to support the destruction of German culture.
(b) He was a Jew.
(c) He wasn't treated with enough civility.
(d) He was immigrating to America.

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

3. Who, considered a heretic, does Einstein compare with Saint Francis of Assisi?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Confucious.
(c) Spinoza.
(d) Buddha.

4. What was Einstein in favor of abolishing?
(a) tax.
(b) politicians.
(c) large cities.
(d) technical advances.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the cultural flowering of the Italian Renaissance based on?

2. What did Einstein think would lead to an "international police"?

3. To whom did Einstein address a farewell letter stating he would no longer go to Geneva nor be a member of the Commission?

4. What did Einstein feel couldn't be done by gradual steps?

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

(see the answer key)

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