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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) Leonard Bernstein.
(b) Heifetz.
(c) Elie Wiesel.
(d) Herzl.

2. How many men refusing to fight on conscientious grounds at the same moment did Einstein think would be irresistible?
(a) 75,000
(b) 100,000
(c) 60,000
(d) 50,000

3. What was Einstein's position in a nutshell?
(a) Intellectuals will finally triumph.
(b) War is useless.
(c) Isolationism is best.
(d) Mere agreements to limit armaments furnish no security.

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

5. To what subject did Katzenstein devote his scientific energies during the last 10 years of his life?
(a) performing successful appendectomies.
(b) the antagonism of the tissues.
(c) the transplanting of organs.
(d) eye surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Einstein's remedy for the stoppages in the industrial cycle?

2. Who wrote an article on Zionism and the Zurich Congress which Einstein felt impelled to answer?

3. What did Einstein want the Prussian Academy of Sciences to do with his written statement?

4. What are the Torah and Talmud to Einstein?

5. What did Popper-Lynkaeus feel society was responsible for?

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