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 I. Here are some headings for paragraphs in the text. Write the number(s) of the paragraph(s) for each title against the heading. The first one is done for you.
(i)
Einstein’s equation
  
(ii)
Einstein meets his future wife
  
(iii)
The making of a violinist
  
(iv)
Mileva and Einstein’s mother
  
(v)
A letter that launched the arms race
  
(vi)
A desk drawer full of ideas
  
(vii)
Marriage and divorce
  
  

Solution

(i) 9
(ii) 7
(iii) 3
(iv) 10
(v)  15
(vi)  8
(vii) 11

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2. Who had these opinions about Einstein?
(i) He was boring.
(ii) He was stupid and would never succeed in life.
(iii) He was a freak.

Solution

(i) Einstein’s playmates thought that he was boring.
(ii) Einstein’s headmaster thought that he was stupid and would never succeed at anything     in life.
(iii) Einstein’s mother thought that he was a freak.

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3. Explain what the reasons for the following are.
(i) Einstein leaving the school in Munich for good.
(ii) Einstein wanting to study in Switzerland rather than in Munich.
(iii) Einstein seeing in Mileva an ally.
(iv) What do these tell you about Einstein?

Solution

(i) Einstein left the school in Munich for good because he hated the school’s regimentation.
(ii) Einstein wanted to study in Switzerland rather than in Munich because it was a more    liberal city.
(iii) Einstein found in Mileva an ally because she, like him, disapproved of the “philistines” or the people who did not like art, literature or music.
(iv) These told about Einstein that he loved freedom. He was liberal and cultured person.

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 What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?

Solution

Einstein called his desk drawer at the patent office the “bureau of theoretical physics”. This was because the drawer was where he used to store his secretly developed ideas.

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