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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. Einstein returns to work at the end of Chapter Thirteen. Why is this unusual?
2. After children sing carols at the Einstein house for Christmas, what reward does he offer them?
3. What is Mrs. Einstein's role in her husband's new fame?
4. During Chapter Eight, Einstein tells his wife to pack as he intends to travel to which country?
5. Elsa Einstein notes in an interview that "To be the wife of this man..."
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why some Japanese are insulted when Einstein speaks in that country.
2. With what group of critics does Einstein grow angry in Chapter Eight, and why?
3. Einstein wins a Nobel Prize for physics in 1922, but not for his theory on relativity. For what work is he given the Nobel, and why is relativity not included?
4. Describe Einstein's attempts to help those less fortunate refugees in Chapter Thirteen.
5. Why is Hitler's persecution of Einstein as a Jew ironic? Explain.
6. What plan does Einstein think up to slow the flood of autograph requests?
7. Einstein asks an American diplomat why the U.S. does not try to end Japan's aggressions in China with a boycott. Explain the diplomat's response and Einstein's feelings about the response.
8. Why does Einstein finally decide to settle in America?
9. Why is Einstein so enthused to meet Dr. Albert Michelson in California?
10. Why is Einstein happier at Princeton University than he is at previous appointments?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the reader reconcile Einstein's pacifism with his decision to become involved with the production of the atomic bomb? Aren't those two things mutually exclusive? Is Einstein a hypocrite, or is there a bigger picture to consider?
Essay Topic 2
Einstein publishes several essays through the course of his life. Pick one essay and complete a detailed analysis; what does his writing tell the reader about his character? From what period in his life does the essay come, and what information or opinions does the essay contain that illustrate the time of his life?
Essay Topic 3
Pick an Einstein quote that sums up his character and discuss in detail why that particular quote says all that needs to be said about him. The selected quote should speak to at least three different aspects of his character.
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