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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 is the "ether" idea invented by earlier scientists?

2. What do Faraday/Maxwell show exist in "free space"?

3. What is the main theme of "To the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto"?

4. What is the third requirement for living in a country?

5. With what is Judaism concerned?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does he say about what he has always fought for?

2. What do the academies say about their loyalties and how do they feel about his resignation?

3. Why does Einstein admire Kepler?

4. Why does Einstein say Judaism is not a religion?

5. What does Einstein say about the Jews who died in the Warsaw Ghetto battles?

6. Why does he say the protest might be better without him?

7. Why didn't Einstein join a French rally against German anti-Semitism?

8. Why did Einstein put mathematics above other sciences?

9. What caused an exchange of correspondence between Einstein and the Prussian and Bavarian academies of science in 1933?

10. Why does the theory of relativity show how modern theoretical science develops?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Einstein says that technology has made international peace a matter of life and death and an ethical imperative for everyone. Discuss the following:

1. Why does Einstein make the above statement? Analyze what Einstein means using examples.

2. Do you think international peace was possible in the time Einstein writes this? What about now? Why or why not?

3. What technology was present in the time Einstein wrote this that could be a matter of life and death? What about now?

Essay Topic 2

In Einstein's essay, "My First Impressions of the U.S.A., he begins by talking about what he calls the "cult of individuals." Discuss the following:

1. What does Einstein mean by the phrase "cult of individuals"? Give examples.

2. Do you believe this "cult" is more or less prevalent in the United States in the first decade of the 21st century? Explain fully.

3. Discuss the pros and cons of a society based upon a "cult of individuals."

Essay Topic 3

Though Einstein is most noted as a physicist, much of what he writes in this text would not seem out of place in a sociology journal. Discuss the following:

1. Do you believe that just because Einstein is a brilliant physicist, it means that brilliance should be valued in areas that are very different from physics and the hard sciences?

2. What do you think would be a synthesis of Einstein's world view of humanity?

3. Which do you value most in Einstein's contribution to humanity--his views on social culture or his contributions in the field of physics and hard science? Explain.

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