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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is a protest against injustice and violence more valuable?
(a) when one's family is endangered by the injustice.
(b) when prompted by an impartial sense of humanity and justice.
(c) when one is personally touched by the injustice.
(d) when prompted by intense personal involvement.

2. What did Einstein say would be no excuse for the behavior of the scientific academies?
(a) pride.
(b) stupidity.
(c) ignorance.
(d) external pressure.

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

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

5. What did the O.R.T. society do try to do for the Jewish people?
(a) organize the Jewish youth.
(b) rid the Jews of social and economic handicaps.
(c) build synagogues and temples in Palestine.
(d) set up libraries in Palestine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the best of the Prophets and Jesus do according to Einstein?

2. How did Einstein describe what was happening to the German people with regard to their anti-Semitism?

3. What was the third feature of the Jewish tradition Einstein was so thankful for?

4. What was leading to success regarding the reconstruction of Palestine in Einstein's opinion?

5. What was the official date of Einstein's resignation from the Prussian Academy of Sciences?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Prussian Academy of Sciences accuse Einstein of doing?

2. Einstein mentioned something else, another Jewish tradition found in many of the Psalms; what was it?

3. Why did Einstein refuse to associate himself with a French manifesto against anti-Semitism?

4. Why did Einstein no longer want to be a citizen of Germany?

5. Who was Herzl and what did he do?

6. What was Einstein's thought on the relations between Jews and Arabs?

7. How did Einstein describe the the state of affairs in Germany in the early 1930's?

8. What was Einstein's definition of political liberty?

9. What was one of the important aims of the Zionist organization and who helped implement this?

10. What were the O.R.T. and the O.Z.E. and in what city did Einstein give a speech to them?

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