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Page No: 51, , 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., , Answer, , (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., , 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?, , Answer, , (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., , 4. What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?, , Answer, , 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.