NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English (Beehive) Chapter 4 Truly Beautiful Mind

Ans : 1. (ii) 9
(ii) 7
(iii) 3
(iv) 10 
(v) 15 
(vii) 11 

Ans : (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. 

Ans : (i) Albert Einstein was not a bad pupil. He scored good marks in almost every subject. However, he hated the regimentation of school, because of which he often had clashes with his teachers. At the age of 15, when he felt too stifled to continue studying, he left the school in Munich for good. 
(ii) According to Einstein, German-speaking Switzerland was more liberal than Munich. Hence, he wanted to study in Switzerland.
(iii) Einstein had a special interest in Mileva, who was his fellow student. He thought that she was a very clever person. She had come to Switzerland because the University in Zurich was one of the few in Europe where women could get degrees. Einstein instantly realised that she was an ally against all the people he was at odds with. He thought she was a clever person. 
(iv) All these instances indicate that Einstein was a visionary. He was clever and never hesitated in keeping his point of view in front of others. He never went with the tide and did things the way he wanted to. Once he knew that he was right, he was not afraid of being at odds with his teachers or for that matter anyone else. Even though he was doing well in school, he left it because he found it too stifling. He eventually moved to Zurich because he thought that this city was much more liberal than Munich. He liked to mix with people who had the same attitude as him. He was a strong man who stuck to his principles and ideas and was not afraid of bringing them into practice. 

Ans : Einstein was working as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern. He called his desk drawer at the patent office the "bureau of theoretical physics." He called it so because while he was supposed to be assessing other people's inventions, he was actually developing his own ideas in secret and his drawer was where he stored these ideas. 

Ans : When the Nazis came to power in Germany, Einstein emigrated to the United States of America. The American physicists were in an uproar because of the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin. They were afraid that the Nazis could now build and use an atomic bomb. At the urging of a colleague, Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt to warn him of the consequences of an atomic explosion.