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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Einstein addressed the Jews of Hungary on behalf of whom?
(a) Pamela Bolgar.
(b) Rachel Moldau.
(c) Sarah Smetana.
(d) Keren Hajessod.

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

3. What is the function of the Torah in Judaism?
(a) It is so sacred it may only be read by rabbis.
(b) It is a symbol of the solidarity of the Jewish people.
(c) It explains why the Jewish people are God's chosen people.
(d) It lays down the laws for Jews.

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

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

6. What did the Prussian Academy of Sciences accuse Einstein of?
(a) atrocity-mongering in America and France.
(b) writing derogatory newspaper articles about the Academy.
(c) not writing the required scientific treatises.
(d) not disclosing recent scientific discoveries to the Academy.

7. What kind of society did Einstein declare the Jews were not trying to create in Palestine?
(a) a religious society.
(b) a restrictive society.
(c) a political society.
(d) a capitalistic society.

8. On what date did Einstein write to The Prussian Academy of Sciences telling them why he would not put in a "good word" on the part of the German people?
(a) April 10, 1933.
(b) April 13, 1933.
(c) April 12, 1933.
(d) April 11, 1933.

9. What does Judaism insist on concerning all living things, especially humans, according to Einstein?
(a) hope.
(b) joy.
(c) compassion.
(d) solidarity.

10. 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) Hegel and Heine.
(d) Kant and Goethe.

11. Why was the Prussian Academy of Sciences particularly upset at Einstein's statements?
(a) They revealed Germany for what it was.
(b) They were statements from a man of world-wide reputation.
(c) They were the truth.
(d) They were lies in the opinion of the Academy.

12. What was needed in order to preserve Jewish solidarity?
(a) the brotherhood of Jews.
(b) hope and faith.
(c) a spiritual center.
(d) hard work.

13. What did the Prussian Academy of Sciences rebuke Einstein for not doing?
(a) contradicting French and Belgian newspaper reports.
(b) remaining a German citizen.
(c) praising Germany.
(d) remaining a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

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

15. In Einstein's opinion with what is Judaism almost exclusively concerned?
(a) excellency in every direction.
(b) loyalty to theology of Judaism.
(c) the moral attitude in life and to life.
(d) creating a Jewish nation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why had the Prussian Academy of Sciences confidently expected Einstein to defend Germany?

3. With whom was Einstein staying when the Prussian Academy wrote to Einstein on April 7, 1933?

4. What did the O.R.T. society do try to do for the Jewish people?

5. What is a particularly characteristic feature of the Jewish tradition brought about by the hallowing of the supra-individual life?

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