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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. What is the seventh day of the Jewish week and the Jewish day of rest?

2. Who from Reuven’s baseball team visits him at the hospital in Chapter 3?

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

4. Reuven has war maps from what periodical all over his walls in Chapter 5?

5. What is the name of Reuven Malter’s father in the narrative?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Reuven respond to the apology offered him in Chapter 2? What does this indicate?

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

3. How does the challenging baseball team appear to Reuven’s teammates in Chapter 1?

4. How is Danny Saunders described in Chapter 1? What is Danny’s apparel like? Where does he live?

5. How is Reuven’s home described when he returns from the hospital in Chapter 5? Who greets them when they arrive home?

6. How is Reuven’s relationship with his father illustrated in Chapter 3?

7. What is significant about Danny’s and Reuven’s aspirations within their synagogues in Chapter 3?

8. Where is Reuven taken for his injury in Chapter 2? How does Reuven feel?

9. What is foreshadowed through Reuven’s inner thoughts and considerations returning home from the hospital in Chapter 5?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Reuven Malter as the protagonist of The Chosen. How old is Reuven when he is introduced in Chapter 1? How do you relate to Reuven’s life, family, and friends? What characteristics stand out about the character in his introduction?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Reuven’s dismissal of Danny’s apology in Chapter 2. What does Reuven’s father tell him about this act? How does he use the Torah in his advice to Reuven? How does Reuven’s action relate to the themes of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Define literary motif and discuss the motif of silence illustrated in the novel. What different silences are described by the narrator? What do they symbolize to him? What does silence mean to Danny and Reb Saunders?

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