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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shortly after the Einstein family relocates to Prague, Einstein is offered a full professorship where?
(a) The Science Institute in Berlin.
(b) Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich.
(c) MIT in the USA.
(d) His old Gymnasium in Munich.

2. Mrs. Einstein thinks her son should have what when he turns six?
(a) History lessons.
(b) Music lessons.
(c) Math lessons.
(d) Speech lessons.

3. Mrs. Einstein thinks her young son's problems are perhaps due to what?
(a) He is slow in learning to speak.
(b) He doesn't understand English.
(c) He is a sickly child.
(d) He is a bad kid.

4. Why is Albert glad that his uncle doesn't ask about his friends at school?
(a) He is too busy with his friends to focus on schoolwork.
(b) He hates the other kids.
(c) He doesn't think he needs friends.
(d) The other boys think he's stupid.

5. What solution does Uncle Jake propose for Albert's difficulties in school?
(a) That Albert drops out of school.
(b) That Albert stay after school to ask questions.
(c) That Albert tries harder to pay attention at school.
(d) That Albert come to him with questions.

Short Answer Questions

1. During dinner, Maja tells her parents that her brother likes to do what?

2. Why is Hermann annoyed when the family sits down to dinner in Chapter Two?

3. Albert's nursery governess says what about her experience taking the children to the park?

4. Whom does Hermann suggest his son ask about the compass?

5. What does Einstein say he thinks is the result of seeing the charm on his father's watch?

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