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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Einstein from where does true scientific research draw its spiritual sustenance?
(a) from the Psalms.
(b) from the book of Leviticus.
(c) from the Talmud.
(d) from a sense of a Higher Power.

2. What is one thing people who view Jews as irreconcilable foes are known for?
(a) their cowardice.
(b) their fear of anyone different.
(c) their apathy.
(d) their rage against the ideals of reason and individual liberty.

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

4. What is it that gives the only meaning to the life of an individual?
(a) how he aids in making others' lives nobler and more beautiful.
(b) that individual's relationship with God.
(c) how successful the individual is.
(d) how that individual relates to his race.

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

6. In Einstein's opinion what is the Jewish outlook in the philosophical sense?
(a) The Jewish outlook, philosophically speaking, is pessimistic.
(b) The Jewish outlook is one of optimism.
(c) The Jewish outlook is one of pre-determination.
(d) Philosophically speaking there is no specific Jewish outlook.

7. What did Einstein say would be no excuse for the behavior of the scientific academies?
(a) pride.
(b) stupidity.
(c) external pressure.
(d) ignorance.

8. Why did the Bavarian Academy of Sciences say that Einstein's resignation from the Prussian Academy would affect his relations with their Academy?
(a) Bavarians hate Prussians.
(b) The Bavarian Academy feared the Prussian Academy.
(c) They would strive harder to keep him as a member.
(d) All German academies were closely allied with one another.

9. What is another thing people who view Jews as irreconcilable foes are known for?
(a) their lack of a sense of humor.
(b) their stupidity and ignorance.
(c) their lack of a feeling of universal brotherhood.
(d) their attempt to establish a spiritless State-slavery by force.

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

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

12. When had Einstein acquired Prussian nationality by becoming a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1917.

13. What was one reason Einstein didn't associate himself with the French Manifesto against anti-Semitism?
(a) that he wasn't a French citizen.
(b) that he would be leaving for America immediately.
(c) that he was apolitical.
(d) that he was still a German citizen.

14. 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) loyalty to the Jewish race.
(c) religious zeal.
(d) sense of humor.

15. What in Jewish tradition finds splendid expression in many of the Psalms according to Einstein?
(a) the setting down of a definite creed.
(b) joy and amazement at the beauty and grandeur of the world.
(c) definite laws on how to lead one's life.
(d) confirmation of an afterlife,.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is a protest against injustice and violence more valuable?

2. Einstein had also been a corresponding member of what other academy of Sciences?

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

4. Einstein was a citizen of what country?

5. What does Judaism insist on concerning all living things, especially humans, according to Einstein?

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