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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Reuven Malter is told that he will be released from the hospital when in Chapter 4?

2. What does Reuven Malter’s father bring to him while he is in the hospital in Chapter 2?

3. What refers to a front-buttoned coat or overdress, usually reaching to the ankles, with long sleeves, worn by Hasidic Jews?

4. To what medical facility is Reuven Malter taken in Chapter 2?

5. Reuven Malter’s home is described as what in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Reuven’s father reveal to Reuven about his condition and surgery in Chapter 2?

2. How does the relationship between Reuven and Danny evolve in Chapter 3?

3. What is indicated by David Malter’s description of the fortunate and unfortunate in Chapter 4?

4. How does Reuven respond to the information he learns about Billy in Chapter 9? What symbolic imagery is described at the end of this chapter?

5. What historical figure does David Malter compare Danny Saunders to in Chapter 6? How is this individual’s influence on Judaism described?

6. How does Reuven become injured during the game in Chapter 1? How does the game end?

7. How does Reuven feel like his life has changed when he returns home from the hospital in Chapter 5? Why?

8. What is indicated by Reuven’s thoughts in the beginning of Chapter 8?

9. How is Reuven’s health in the beginning of Chapter 9? What do he and Danny discuss when they meet?

10. How are the differences between Reuven and Danny explained to Reuven by his father in Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting of The Chosen and the importance of that setting to the narrative and its themes. Could The Chosen be “modernized,” or would this affect the story itself? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting of Williamsburg, Brooklin in the 1930s. What ethnic and religious groups lived principally in this neighborhood at the time? How inclusive is Reuven’s neighborhood? What is a “brownstone” and how are these houses set up? How wealthy is Reuven’s family?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the origins, history, rituals and beliefs of Orthodox and Hasidic Judaism. When did Hasidic Judaism first spread in Europe? Who led its establishment? Why is this history important to the themes and subject of The Chosen?

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