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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 is the essence of the Jewish conception of life according to Einstein?
(a) an attitude of total hopelessness..
(b) an attitude toward life like the theory "the survival of the fittest".
(c) a concepton of life as endless trials and tribulations.
(d) an affirmative attitude to the life of all creation.

2. What did Einstein feel used to unite Europe as late as the 17th century?
(a) politics.
(b) religion.
(c) a common ideal and use of the Latin language.
(d) the physical proximity of the European countries.

3. The pure doctrine of Judaism is obscured by what according to Einstein?
(a) by not heeding the teaching of the rabbis.
(b) by a feeling pessimism and unbelief.
(c) by not following the laws of the Torah.
(d) by too much worship of the letter.

4. What did the O.R.T. society do try to do for the Jewish people?
(a) rid the Jews of social and economic handicaps.
(b) set up libraries in Palestine.
(c) build synagogues and temples in Palestine.
(d) organize the Jewish youth.

5. What is a feature of the Jewish tradition which makes Einstein thank his stars he belongs to it?
(a) sense of humor.
(b) loyalty to the Jewish race.
(c) pursuit of knowledge for its own sake.
(d) religious zeal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Torah and Talmud to Einstein?

2. In what German city was the Prussian Academy of Sciences located?

3. The demands of what form of societal system were for the most part first raised by the Jews, according to Einstein?

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

5. Who did Einstein call "our leader" and praise for his zeal and circumspection?

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