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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason did Einstein give for resigning from The Prussian Academy of Sciences?
(a) He was a Jew.
(b) He was immigrating to America.
(c) He didn't want to support the destruction of German culture.
(d) He wasn't treated with enough civility.

2. What is the Jewish God according to Einstein?
(a) Abraham's and all Jews' father.
(b) A God made in man's likeness.
(c) a mighty and fearful power.
(d) a negation of superstition.

3. What kind of spirit should Jewish youth cultivate in Einstein's opinion?
(a) the religious spirit.
(b) the spirit of adventure.
(c) the international spirit.
(d) the spirit of communal living.

4. What did Einstein consider would have been the repudiation of all the notions of justice and liberty for which he stood all his life?
(a) disowning his Jewish heritage.
(b) putting a "good word" in for the German people in 1933.
(c) becoming political since he felt politicians were corrupt.
(d) giving up his German citizenship.

5. Why was the Prussian Academy of Sciences particularly upset at Einstein's statements?
(a) They were lies in the opinion of the Academy.
(b) They were the truth.
(c) They were statements from a man of world-wide reputation.
(d) They revealed Germany for what it was.

6. What was expressly included in the command to keep holy the Sabbath day?
(a) the synagogue or temple.
(b) choice of food to be eaten.
(c) animals.
(d) family.

7. According to Einstein from where does true scientific research draw its spiritual sustenance?
(a) from the Talmud.
(b) from the book of Leviticus.
(c) from the Psalms.
(d) from a sense of a Higher Power.

8. What did Einstein want the Prussian Academy of Sciences to do with his written statement?
(a) communicate it to its members and to the German public.
(b) enter it into the minutes of the next Academy meeting.
(c) publish it in prominent German newspapers.
(d) read it out loud at the meeting of the Academy.

9. What is the essence of the Jewish conception of life according to Einstein?
(a) an attitude toward life like the theory "the survival of the fittest".
(b) an attitude of total hopelessness..
(c) a concepton of life as endless trials and tribulations.
(d) an affirmative attitude to the life of all creation.

10. What kind of society did Einstein declare the Jews were not trying to create in Palestine?
(a) a political society.
(b) a religious society.
(c) a restrictive society.
(d) a capitalistic society.

11. Who did Einstein call "our leader" and praise for his zeal and circumspection?
(a) Isaiah.
(b) Weiss.
(c) Weizmann.
(d) Cohen.

12. How did Einstein describe what was happening to the German people with regard to their anti-Semitism?
(a) despicable.
(b) outrageous.
(c) mass-psychosis.
(d) intolerable.

13. The pure doctrine of Judaism is obscured by what according to Einstein?
(a) by too much worship of the letter.
(b) by not heeding the teaching of the rabbis.
(c) by a feeling pessimism and unbelief.
(d) by not following the laws of the Torah.

14. What is a feature of the Jewish tradition which makes Einstein thank his stars he belongs to it?
(a) religious zeal.
(b) loyalty to the Jewish race.
(c) pursuit of knowledge for its own sake.
(d) sense of humor.

15. What two things did Einstein emphasize to Jewish youth were important for the destiny of the Jews?
(a) sticking together and helping each other.
(b) being faithful to the Torah and to the Talmud.
(c) being ambitious and working hard.
(d) obeying one's parents and the rabbi.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Einstein's opinion with what is Judaism almost exclusively concerned?

2. What in Jewish tradition finds splendid expression in many of the Psalms according to Einstein?

3. What is a particularly characteristic feature of the Jewish tradition brought about by the hallowing of the supra-individual life?

4. Who made the following remark to Einstein: "When a Jew says that he's going hunting to amuse himself, he lies."

5. Where was Einstein staying when he wrote his answer to the Prussian Academy's declaration against him?

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