Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
He also felt a special interest in a fellow student, Mileva Marie, whom he found to be a “clever creature”. This young Serb had come to Switzerland because the University in Zurich was one of the few in Europe where women could get degrees. Einstein saw in her an ally against the “philistines”- those people in his family and at the university with whom he was constantly at odds.
1. Who felt special interest in Mileva Marie and why?
2. Why did Mileva Marie come to Switzerland?
3. Which word in the passage means “softness”?
1. Albert Einstein felt a special interest in Mileva Marie as he thought her to be a clever creature.
2. Mileva Marie came to Switzerland as the University of Zurich was one of the few places of Europe where women could get degrees.
3. Tenderness.