Q.1. What did the school headmaster say about Einstein?
(a) None of these
(b) He is great
(c) He can’t be a success at anything
(d) He would be a genius
Q.2. What did the newspapers proclaim Einstein's work?
(a) A scientific revolution
(b) An unscientific revolution
(c) A cinematic revolution
(d) An economic revolution
Q.3. What kind of prose do you think, A Truly Beautiful Mind can be categorised as?
(a) Novel
(b) Biographical text
(c) Autobiographical text
(d) Short story
Q.4. By what age did Einstein not learn to speak?
(a) Five and half years
(b) Three and half years
(c) Two and half years
(d) Four and half years
Q.5. A Truly Beautiful Mind, what did Albert's playmates call him?
(a) Boring Brat
(b) Brother Brown
(c) Brother Boring
(d) Big Brother
Q.6. Why did Einstein write a public missive to the UN?
(a) He wanted to propose his theory in the UN.
(b) He wanted the membership of the UN.
(c) He was in favour of the world government.
(d) He was moved by world destruction.
Q.7. Why did Einstein leave the school?
(a) For good
(b) He had clashed with the teachers
(c) All of these
(d) He didn’t like discipline and order in the school
Q.8. Who was Einstein's second wife?
(a) Mileva Maric
(b) Maja
(c) Einstein's cousin Elsa
(d) He did not marry a second time
Q.9. When was Albert Einstein born as per the date given in the text, A Truly Beautiful Mind
(a) 14th March 1859
(b) 14th March 1879
(c) 14th March 1889
(d) 14th March 1869
Q.10. To which the American President did Einstein write a letter about the destructive powers of such atomic bombs?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Theodore Roosevelt
(c) Franklin Pierce
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt
Q2: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
A headmaster once told his father that what Einstein chose as a profession would not matter, because “he will never make a success at anything ” Einstein began learning to play the violin at the age of six, because his mother wanted him to. He later became a gifted amateur violinist, maintaining this skill throughout his life.
(a) What was the headmaster’s opinion about Einstein?
(b) Why did Einstein leave the school in Munich?
(c) Why did Einstein learn to play violin?
(d) What kind of a violin player was Einstein?
Q3: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
But Albert Einstein was not a bad pupil. He went to high school in Munich, where Einstein’s family had moved when he was 15 months old, and scored good marks in almost every subject.
(a) What had Einstein’s Headmaster said about him?
(b) What were Einstein’s achievements at school?
(c) Where did Einstein attend high school?
(d) What kind of a school did Einstein wish to join?
Q4: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Einstein hated the school’s regimentation and often clashed with his teachers. At the age of 15, Einstein felt so stifled there that he left the school for good.
(a) Why did Einstein clash with his teachers?
(b) When did Einstein leave his school in Munich and why?
(c) Where did Einstein go after leaving his school in Munich?
(d) What does this tell you about Einstein?
Q5: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Einstein was highly gifted in mathematics and interested in physics, and after finishing school, he decided to study at a university in Zurich. But science wasn ’t the only thing that appealed to the dashing young man with the walrus moustache.
(a) Where did Einstein want to continue his education? Why?
(b) What were his favourite subjects?
(c) Explain: But science wasn’t the only thing that appealed to the dashing young man.
(d) Why did he see Mileva as an ally?
Q6: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
He worked as a teaching assistant, gave private lessons and finally secured a job in 1902 as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern. While he was supposed to be assessing other people’s inventions, Einstein was actually developing his own ideas in secret.
(a) How did Einstein earn a living before securing a job?
(b) When did Einstein secure a job? What was the nature of this job?
(c) Why did Einstein develop his ideas in secret?
(d) Where did he store his inventions? What did he call it?
Q7: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
One of the famous papers of 1905 was Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, according to which time and distance are not absolute.
(a) Explain the term “absolute”
(b) What according to Einstein are not absolute?
(c) What is described by the formula E=mc2?
(d) How did this formula establish Einstein as a scientific genius?
Q8: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
While Einstein was solving the most difficult problems in physics, his private life was unravelling. Albert had wanted to marry Mileva right after finishing his studies, but his mother was against it. She thought Mileva, who was three years older than her son, was too old for him. She was also bothered by Mileva’s intelligence. “She is a book like you, ” his mother said. Einstein put the wedding off.
(a) Where was Mileva from? Why did she join Zurich University?
(b) Why did Einstein’s mother oppose his marriage with Mileva?
(c) Why did Einstein put the wedding off?
(d) When did Einstein get married to Mileva?
Q9: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
The pair finally got married in January 1903, and had two sons. But a few years later, the marriage faltered.
(a) Name the couple being talked about?
(b) What happened to their marriage?
(c) Why did their marriage falter?
(d) Whom did Einstein marry later?
Q10: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Many of them had fled from Fascism, just as Einstein had, and now they were afraid the Nazis could build and use an atomic bomb.
(a) What does the word ‘fascism’ mean?
(b) Who does ‘they’ refer to in the above lines?
(c) When and where had many of them fled from? Why?
(d) What were they afraid of and why?
Q11: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction. This time he wrote a public missive to the United Nations In it he proposed the formation of a world government. Unlike the letter to Roosevelt, this one made no impact.
(a) What ‘destruction’ shook Einstein?
(b) What did Einstein write and to whom?
(c) Who was Roosevelt? Why had Einstein written to him?
(d) How had Roosevelt responded?
Q12: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Unlike the letter to Roosevelt, this one made no impact. But over the next decade, Einstein got ever more involved in politics – agitating for an end to the arms buildup and using his popularity to campaign for peace and democracy.
(a) What does ‘this one’ refer to?
(b) Who had written a letter to Roosevelt and why?
(c) What had Einstein written in ‘this one’?
(d) Why did Einstein get more involved in politics?
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