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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. What does Judaism attempt to do according to Einstein?
(a) prove itself the best of all belief systems.
(b) base the moral law on fear.
(c) use ancient stories to teach morality.
(d) unify the Jews scattered all over the world.

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

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

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

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?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 9 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 12 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Einstein feel was one of the noblest features of the French tradition?

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

3. Who was the Secretary of the Prussian Academy of Sciences?

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

5. What is one thing people who view Jews as irreconcilable foes are known for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Einstein feel saw in the Jews their irreconcilable foes?

2. Who was Herzl and what did he do?

3. Why did Einstein refuse to associate himself with a French manifesto against anti-Semitism?

4. Why did Einstein no longer want to be a citizen of Germany?

5. 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?

6. What made solidarity and achievements as a people difficult if not impossible for the Jews for thousands of years?

7. Einstein mentioned two famous dead Germans in the beginning of Part III. He hoped Germany would produce such greatness again some day. Who were they? Do you think he still loved Germany?

8. Einstein mentioned something else, another Jewish tradition found in many of the Psalms; what was it?

9. The Prussian Academy of Sciences based its accusation of Einstein's atrocity-mongering on what evidence?

10. What was the essence of Judaism according to Einstein?

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