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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Four, Einstein makes friends from other countries at his new school. What affect do their stories have on him?
(a) He starts plotting a German revolution.
(b) He begins dreaming of freedom for all men.
(c) He plans a career in government.
(d) He thinks they're lying and refuses to spend time with them.

2. Bertrand Russell comments that "Everybody knows that Einstein does something astonishing...".
(a) "but very few people know exactly what it is that he does."
(b) "and we eagerly await his next invention."
(c) "but no one thinks it is important."
(d) "and the whole world knows exactly what he does."

3. One of the people who attends Einstein's lecture in Paris is _____.
(a) Rachel Carson.
(b) Madame Curie.
(c) Virginia Apgar.
(d) Rosalind Franklin.

4. The boy Miss Dukas leaves on the porch mentions to Einstein that his family all die in concentration camps, and that he is from what city?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Munich.
(d) Ulm.

5. On the way home from the trip to Japan, Einstein cannot resist an invitation to visit what country?
(a) England.
(b) America.
(c) Spain.
(d) Portugal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hermann Einstein pleased when his son displays interest in the pocket watch?

2. With what part of Einstein's job at the university is his wife dissatisfied in Chapter Six?

3. Why is the hometown of the boy waiting on the porch significant to Einstein?

4. Einstein meets Mileva Maritsch at his new school. On what do they spend most of their time?

5. When asked by the Archbishop what effect his theory has on religion, what does Einstein answer?

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