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

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

• Paramount

• Duality

• Unified theory

• interaction between

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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

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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.

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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