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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which two Gentile writers was Einstein happy to see attend the speech he gave in London?
(a) Henry James and Aldous Huxley.
(b) Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells.
(c) Oscar Wilde and Robert Burns.
(d) Somerset Maugham and T.S. Eliot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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 13, 1933.
(b) April 10, 1933.
(c) April 12, 1933.
(d) April 11, 1933.

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

12. 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 Swiss Academy of Sciences.
(d) The French Academy of Sciences.

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

14. In what German city was the Bavarian Academy of Sciences located?
(a) Munich.
(b) Garmish-Partenkirchen.
(c) Stuttgart.
(d) Moosburg.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is it that gives the only meaning to the life of an individual?

5. 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?

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