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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judaism attempt to do according to Einstein?

2. What was leading to success regarding the reconstruction of Palestine in Einstein's opinion?

3. At the beginning of Part III Einstein compared the psychic distemper of a society with what?

4. Einstein addressed the Jews of Hungary on behalf of whom?

5. What kind of society did Einstein declare the Jews were not trying to create in Palestine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Einstein wrote that he would only live in a country with what characteristics?

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

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

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

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

6. What was Einstein's advice to Jewish youth?

7. What were the O.R.T. and the O.Z.E. and in what city did Einstein give a speech to them?

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

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

10. What was Einstein's view on life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What negative things does Einstein feel the press and mass media do? How are the masses negatively influenced by these?

2) Who was H.A. Lorentz and why did Einstein admire him?

3) What were the Solvay Congresses? Where did they take place? Who presided over them? Who gathered for them?

4) Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the way Einstein likes to live his life which seems to contrast with social ideals?

2) Describe Einstein's views on the military system.

3) Explain Einstein's views on the individual vs the State. Why do you suppose he feels this way?

4) Choose two of the topics to write about.

Essay Topic 3

1) What is Einstein's opinion about political leaders and governments? Do you agree with him? or not? Why?

2) What was the problem among the intellectual elite of different countries in 1933, according to Einstein?

3) What is Einstein's view about compulsory military service? Elaborate.

4) Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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