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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the names of the two secretaries of the Prussian Academy of Sciences who signed the Academy's answer to Einstein?
(a) H. von Ficker and E. Heymann.
(b) F. von Edelmann and E. Heinemann.
(c) H. von Pueschner and E. Heidegger.
(d) H. von Hofsmannsthal and E. Lessing.

3. What was the primary duty of a scientific academy in Einstein's opinion?
(a) to hold regular meetings for scientists' intercommunication.
(b) to do scientific research.
(c) to encourage and protect the scientific life of a country.
(d) to publish scientific papers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the German scientific academies do that Einstein deplored?

2. 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?

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

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. Instead of atrocity-mongering what did the French people do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Prussian Academy of Sciences accuse Einstein of doing?

2. What did Einstein feel were the greatest enemies of the national consciousness and honor of the Jews?

3. To help explain why he didn't accept the invitation to associate himself with a French proponent against Anti-Semitism he cited a comparison of a certain French writer and a famous political case. What were they?

4. What was Einstein's definition of political liberty?

5. Describe some of the things about George Bernard Shaw which Einstein admired?

6. Who was Herzl and what did he do?

7. Why did Einstein refuse to put in a "good word" for the German nation?

8. What did the Prussian Academy of Sciences ask Einstein to do?

9. What was Einstein's view on life?

10. Name some of the features of the Jewish tradition that Einstein mentions in Part IV and for which he is very grateful.

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