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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Einstein want the Prussian Academy of Sciences to do with his written statement?
(a) publish it in prominent German newspapers.
(b) read it out loud at the meeting of the Academy.
(c) communicate it to its members and to the German public.
(d) enter it into the minutes of the next Academy meeting.

2. What is the essence of the Jewish conception of life according to Einstein?
(a) an affirmative attitude to the life of all creation.
(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 attitude of total hopelessness..

3. Who was the Secretary of the Prussian Academy of Sciences?
(a) Dr. Ernst Heymann.
(b) Dr. Erhardt Birn.
(c) Dr. Heinrich Edelmann.
(d) Dr. Eckhardt Lehmann.

4. Instead of atrocity-mongering what did the French people do?
(a) they did nothing.
(b) write letters to German newspapers.
(c) take in and protect Jews fleeing from Germany.
(d) reproduce and comment on official German statements.

5. When is a protest against injustice and violence more valuable?
(a) when one is personally touched by the injustice.
(b) when one's family is endangered by the injustice.
(c) when prompted by intense personal involvement.
(d) when prompted by an impartial sense of humanity and justice.

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

7. What are the Torah and Talmud to Einstein?
(a) his most beloved possessions.
(b) evidence of the Jewish manner of life in earlier times.
(c) infallible, sacred Jewish writings.
(d) what he bases his life on.

8. What did Einstein feel was one of the noblest features of the French tradition?
(a) the bravery of the French people.
(b) the honesty of the French people.
(c) the highly developed sense of justice of the French people.
(d) the love of life the French exhibit.

9. Who wrote an article on Zionism and the Zurich Congress which Einstein felt impelled to answer?
(a) Professor Lipps.
(b) Professor Hellpach.
(c) Professor Heimweh.
(d) Professor Stillgut.

10. What has the task in Palestine given the Jewish people according to Einstein?
(a) faith in Judaism and in life.
(b) solidarity and optimism.
(c) employment and inspiration.
(d) hope and peace of mind.

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

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

13. Einstein had also been a corresponding member of what other academy of Sciences?
(a) The Swiss Academy of Sciences.
(b) The Austrian Academy of Science.
(c) The Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
(d) The French Academy of Sciences.

14. What comment did Einstein make about the letter from von Ficker of the Prussian academy to him?
(a) the letter made him extremely angry,
(b) the letter made saddened him.
(c) the letter was a complete surprise to him.
(d) the letter showed him how right he had been to resign.

15. At the beginning of Part III Einstein stated that hoped the principles of what great Germans would again prevail in Germany sometime in the future?
(a) Lessing and Thomas Mann.
(b) Hegel and Heine.
(c) Schiller and Schopenhauer.
(d) Kant and Goethe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the function of the Talmud?

2. Einstein addressed the Jews of Hungary on behalf of whom?

3. What is another feature of the Jewish tradition which Einstein highly values?

4. What did Einstein consider would have been the repudiation of all the notions of justice and liberty for which he stood all his life?

5. According to Einstein from where does true scientific research draw its spiritual sustenance?

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