Einstein Paired Passages

What is the meaning of the word pantheon it is used in paragraph 1 of “No Mere Genius”?

• A group of important people

• A community of spiritual seekers

• A commemorative monument

• an ancient structure

Which word or phrase for paragraph 1 best supports the answer to Part A?

• Paramount

• Duality

• Unified theory

• interaction between

Which statement represents a central idea of “No Mere Genius”?

• Einstein is the direct intellectual descendent of Isaac Newton

• Einstein’s celebrity almost never interfered with his research

• Einstein’s work had far-reaching transformational effects

• Einstein is remembered more for his image then for his achievements

Select the sentence from paragraph 12 that provides the best support for the answer to Part A.

• In 1992, the year Einstein received the Nobel prize, James Joyce published Ulysses T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land.

• There was a famous party in May for the debut of the ballet Renard, compose but Igor Stravinsky and stage by Sergey Diaghilev.

• They were both there, along with Pablo Picasso (who had designed the sets), Marcel Proust (who had been proclaimed Einstein’s literary interpreter), and Joyce.

• The art of each, in its way, reflected the breakdown of mechanical order and of the sense that space and time were absolutes.

Why does the author quotes Peter Galison in paragraph

2 of “Was Einstein a Space Alien?”

• To demonstrate that Einstein’s loss was to be born at

  the right time

• To explain that Einstein displayed the prejudices of

  his era

• To suggest Einstein’s unwillingness To share his ideas

• To argue that Einstein was in some ways an average person

Which paragraph provides additional evidence to the

answer to Part A?

• 5

• 10

• 12

• 15

What a major claim about Einstein is the author of

“Was Einstein a Space Alien?” develop in paragraph 7 and 8?

• He was a source of frustration for his teachers

• He was an independent and original thinker

• he relished provoking intellectual battles

• he ended up winning the respect of his adversaries

Which sentence best supports the answer to Part A?

• In Einstein’s day, if you trying to say that light

  was made of particles, you found yourself disagreeing with the physicist James Clerk Maxwell. (paragraph 7)

• Maxwell was an Authority Figure. (paragraph 7)

• He didn’t resist being told what to do, not so, much that he hated being told what was True. (paragraph 8)

• “Your mere presence here undermines the classes respect for me ,” spat his seventh grade teacher, Dr. Joseph Degenhart. (paragraph 8)

In paragraph 9 of “Was Einstein a Space Alien?” what

is the meaning of the word beholden?

• Attached through shared interests

• Hostile

• Bound by obligation

• Grateful

Which word or phrase from paragraph 8-9 of “Was Einstein a Space Alien?” best clarifies the meaning of the word for beholden?

• “fig” paragraph 8

• “flaw” paragraph 8

• “authority figure” paragraph 9

• “freedom to roam” paragraph 9