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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Jewish God according to Einstein?
(a) Abraham's and all Jews' father.
(b) A God made in man's likeness.
(c) a mighty and fearful power.
(d) a negation of superstition.

2. What kind of religion is Judaism not according to Einstein?
(a) nihilistic.
(b) transcendental.
(c) practical.
(d) strict.

3. Who did Einstein call "our leader" and praise for his zeal and circumspection?
(a) Isaiah.
(b) Cohen.
(c) Weizmann.
(d) Weiss.

4. What accusation by the Prussian Academy of Sciences did Einstein feel was slanderous?
(a) that he was a snob and an elitist.
(b) that wrote bogus scientific papers.
(c) that he had taken part in atrocity-mongering against Germany.
(d) that he was disloyal to the future of Science.

5. What was the date Einstein wrote his Manifesto about only staying in a country with political liberty, toleration and equality of citizens existed?
(a) May, 1932.
(b) March, 1933.
(c) March, 1934.
(d) May, 1935.

6. What should Jewish youth take an interest in according to Einstein?
(a) Jewish questions and difficulties.
(b) education but also athletics.
(c) science.
(d) obedience to their parents' traditions.

7. What is a particularly characteristic feature of the Jewish tradition brought about by the hallowing of the supra-individual life?
(a) a reverence for rabbis.
(b) a reverence for everything spiritual.
(c) a reverence for Orthodox Judaism.
(d) a reverence for one's Jewish ancestors.

8. What was expressly included in the command to keep holy the Sabbath day?
(a) animals.
(b) family.
(c) the synagogue or temple.
(d) choice of food to be eaten.

9. Why had the Prussian Academy of Sciences confidently expected Einstein to defend Germany?
(a) because he would fear them.
(b) because he didn't want to be thrown out of the Academy.
(c) because he would put his scientific connections first.
(d) because he had belonged to the Academy for a long time.

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

11. Where was Einstein staying when he wrote his answer to the Prussian Academy's declaration against him?
(a) L'Oiseau near Angers.
(b) Le Coq, near Ostende.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Amsterdam, Holland.

12. With whom was Einstein staying when the Prussian Academy wrote to Einstein on April 7, 1933?
(a) Professor Jungfrau.
(b) Professor Ehrenfest.
(c) Professor Kuhle.
(d) Professor Liebenmilch.

13. What was the official date of Einstein's resignation from the Prussian Academy of Sciences?
(a) March 27, 1933.
(b) March 30, 1933.
(c) March 8, 1933.
(d) March 28, 1933.

14. Einstein was a citizen of what country?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Austria.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) France.

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) Schiller and Schopenhauer.
(c) Kant and Goethe.
(d) Hegel and Heine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the essence of the Jewish conception of life according to Einstein?

2. Which country did Einstein use as an example for the Jews to follow in the construction of Palestine?

3. What was the primary duty of a scientific academy in Einstein's opinion?

4. In what German city was the Bavarian Academy of Sciences located?

5. How many years did Einstein say in his Addresses on the Reconstruction of Palestine had passed since he had last made an address on the Zionist cause?

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