The Chosen Review

Which of the following is not a major concern of this novel?

Your answer:
Intellectual study
Friendship
Assimiliation
Death

What is the best approximation of the word 'tzaddik' used in the novel?

Your answer:
Orthodox Jew
Secular Jew
tyrant
leader

Which of the following does not illustrate the divide between Hasidic and non-Hasidic Jews?

Your answer:
the ban on Reuven Malter
the segregation of the neighborhood
the baseball game
the conflict over Palestine

Which of the following characters could not be considered an apikorsim

Your answer:
Reb Saunders
Danny Saunders
David Malter
Reuven Malter

What does Mr. Savo think Reuven will be when he grows up?

Your answer:
docter
rabbi
baseball player
priest

According to Reuven, why does Danny think that he is an apikorsim?

Your answer:
He goes to a school that teaches more secular subjects.
His father is a Zionist.
His father is an outspoken advocate of Darwinism.
He does not play softball in traditional dress.

Which of the following characters is not a patient in the hospital?

Your answer:
Mickey
Levi
Tony Savo
Billy

What is the significance of the name "Robert" at the hospital?

Your answer:
Robert is a young boy who has been in the hospital all his life.
The doctors call Reuven this because they cannot bother learning a name that is not conventionally American.
Reuven calls himself this because Mr. Savo has trouble pronouncing his name.
The other patients decide to call Reuven this name without his permission.

According to Danny, why did he have to win the game?

Your answer:
he was jealous of the other team
his father demanded it.
God demanded it
his team needed to win

According to David Malter, why should Reuven and Danny become friends?

Your answer:
The two have a common intereste in psychology.
The Talmud instructs that one should find a teacher and a friend.
Dave Malter knows that Danny needs non-Hasidic friends.
Reuven needs someone to counter the influence of Reb Saunders.

How does Danny Saunders first learn about David Malter?

Your answer:
David Malter advises Danny on books he should read.
David Malter is Danny's psychology teacher.
Reb Saunders has warned Danny about David.
He meets David Malter at the hospital.

Which of the following is not true about Reb Saunders?

Your answer:
His family was executed by Cossacks.
He is from Southern Russia.
He fled to America during the Bolshevik revolution.
He changed his name from Senders to Saunders to disguise his identity.

How does Reuven react to Reb Saunders' questions about gematriya?

Your answer:
He tells him that gematriya is pointless numerology.
He barely responds because Reb Saunders intimidates him.
He points out a mistake that Reb Saunders had made.
He admits that he does not know gematriya, enraging Reb Saunders.

What does Reb Saunders admit to Reuven?

Your answer:
He admits that he knows Danny will not follow in his footsteps.
He admits that the gematriya was fixed.
He admits that his treatment of his son looks poor to others, but it is for his benefit.
He admits that is not always able to talk to his son.

According to Graetz, what are the tzaddik?

Your answer:
followers of Baal
the only true Jews
the Jews responsible for carrying the religion through centuries of persecution
the most significant problem that Jews have ever faced

Why does Danny believe that he has difficulty with Freud?

Your answer:
He is reading Freud, rather that studying him.
Freud deals with issues that Danny has never had to face.
Freud approaches his subject from a secular viewpoint.
He cannot understand the dialect of German that Freud uses.

"How the world drinks our blood, how the world makes us suffer." To what does this quote refer?

Your answer:
The Bolshevik revolution
The Holocaust
The revelation that Danny is reading Freud.
Terrorism in Palestine

From what affliction does David Malter suffer?

Your answer:
cerebral hemorrhage
cancer
kidney failure
heart disease

Which person's death makes Reuven feel that he has lost his own father?

Your answer:
Professor Gershenson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Tony Savo
Mr. Galanter

When is the only time that Danny and his father speak?

Your answer:
When Danny is studying the Talmud.
When Reb Saunders can lecture Danny.
When Reb Saunders quizzes Danny.
When the two are alone together.

Which graduate school does Danny Saunders attend?

Your answer:
Harvard
Berkeley
Columbia
Hirsch

Which best describes Reb Saunders' attitude toward Reuven Malter?

Your answer:
He attempts to deny the possibility that Reuven might 'corrupt' Danny.
He ignores Reuven because he is not a Hasidic Jew.
He uses Reuven as a way to communicate with his son.
He has complete contempt for Reuven for his Zionist views.

Which of the following characters is not matched with the correct physical affliction?

Your answer:
David Malter - heart disease
Tony Savo - brain cancer
Levi Saunders - a blood disorder
Danny Saunders - poor vision

Reb Saunders is not raising his son the correct way, but has the right to make these decisions for himslef. Which character is most likely to espouse this view?

Your answer:
David Malter
Professor Appleman
Danny Saunders
Reuven Malter

Zionism is an affront to Judaism and a contaminated idea. Which character is most likey to believe this?

Your answer:
Danny Saunders
David Malter
Reuven Malter
Reb Saunders

"The slaugher of six million Jews will only have meaning on the day a Jewish state is established." Which character states this?

Your answer:
Rev Gershenson
Reuven Malter
David Malter
Reb Saunders

What is the name of the terrorist group whose actions are described in the novel?

Your answer:
Symbionese Liberation Army
Hamas
League for a Religious Eretz Yisroel
Irgun

Which of the following statements about Rev Gershenson is not true?

Your answer:
He disapproves of Freudianism
He suspects that Reuven receives help from his father.
He does not permit Reuven to use certain methods to answer Talmudic questions.
He rarely calls on Reuven

What is the promise that Reb Saunders aska of Reuven?

Your answer:
He asks him to dissuade Danny from reading Freud.
He asks him to not interfere with Danny's training as a tzaddik.
He asks him not to corrupt Danny with apikorsim ideas.
He asks him not to make a goy out of his son.

When Danny resumes speaking to Reuven, what does he first say?

Your answer:
He apologizes for not speaking to him.
He asks for help in experimental psychology.
He gives Reuven condolence for his father's ill health.
He calls him an apikorism.

"There's more truth to that than you realize. You can listen to silence." Which character states this?

Your answer:
Reuven Malter
Danny Saunders
Reb Saunders
David Malter

How does Reb Saunders react when Reuven mentions the possibility of a Jewish state?

Your answer:
He says that it is a great idea and should have been implemented sooner
He screams at Reuven
He leaves the room without saying a word.
He throws Reuven out of his house.

Which of the following is not a theme in the novel?

Your answer:
Sickness and Health
Patriotism
Fatherhood
History

Which of the following best describes Danny Saunders' view of his father?

Your answer:
He does not condemn his father for his silence, and in fact respects him for it.
He feels sorry for his father for his antiquated ways and humors him.
He understands why his father acts this way, but would never treat another in the same manner.
He loathes his father for the psychological abuse he inflicts.

"He could have been a great man." Which character says this about which other character?

Your answer:
Reuven Malter says this about David Malter.
David Malter says this about Danny Saunders.
Reb Saunders says this about Danny Saunders.
David Malter says this about Reb Saunders.

According to Reb Saunders, what was Reuven's role in his son's life?

Your answer:
Reuven was sent by the devil to corrupt his son.
Reuven was sent by God to test his son's devotion to God.
Reuven was sent by God when Danny was ready to rebel.
Reuven was sent to teach Danny about experimental psychology.

What does Reb Saunders say to Reuven concerning his ban on him for his father's Zionist speech?

Your answer:
None of the above.
He apologizes to Reuven.
He refuses to say that what he did was wrong.
He says nothing about the ban.

"Anything can be a shell." What is the example of the shell that Reb Saunders gives of a 'shell'?

Your answer:
sin
religious duty
a great mind
friendship

Why does Danny shave off his beard and earlocks?

Your answer:
He cannot remain as Hasid while relinquishing his duty to his father.
He does this to spite Reb Saunders.
He cannot continue his Hasidic ways while believing the Freudianism he has studied.
He cannot practice psychology looking like a Hasid.

Which of the following characters does not practice silence as a form of communication.

Your answer:
Reb Saunders
Danny Saunders
Rav Gershenson
Tony Savo