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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Einstein say prompts efficiency and the development of technology in the United States?
(a) The high cost of labor.
(b) The intellectual prowess of Americans.
(c) The value of the individual in the United States.
(d) The general lazy nature of Americans.

2. Whose work shatters the framework of classical mechanics and provides the basis for further research in physics?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Frederick Grover.
(c) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
(d) Paul Dirac.

3. What does Germany use to justify atrocities against the Jews?
(a) That the Jews are not a religious but rather racial group of people.
(b) That the Jews have more money than any other group in Germany and therefore must be greedy.
(c) The fact that the Jews are not native Germans.
(d) Fabricated crimes committed by the Jewish people.

4. To what is attributed ideals of social justice, mutual aid, philanthropy, tolerance and the exaltation of intellectual aspiration and spiritual effort?
(a) The ideals of a benevolent sovereign nation.
(b) As the ideals to which all humanity must strive.
(c) As the essential character of Jews as a group.
(d) To human beings in their most perfected state.

5. How could unilateral disarmament be negotiated?
(a) Through laws in a world court.
(b) Through enforcement of the League of Nations.
(c) Through arbitration.
(d) Einstein is not certain about that point.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has too much influence on public thought?

2. How does Einstein characterize the House Un-American Activities Committee?

3. According to Einstein, what must Jews strive to be?

4. What does Einstein encourage lesser scientists to do?

5. According to Einstein, what must Jews continue to do?

(see the answer key)

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