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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose actions led to Reuven Malter’s injury in Chapter 2?
(a) Jack Rose's.
(b) Schwartzie’s.
(c) Danny Saunders’.
(d) Billy Merritt's.

2. When Danny Saunders visits Reuven for the second time at the hospital, he reveals that during the baseball game he had wanted to do what?
(a) Be part of a triple play.
(b) Break Reuven’s head open with a bat.
(c) His a home run.
(d) Steal home plate.

3. From which point-of-view is the narrative of The Chosen related?
(a) Third-person.
(b) Fourth-person.
(c) First-person.
(d) Second-person.

4. What does Reuven Malter’s father bring to him while he is in the hospital in Chapter 2?
(a) A television.
(b) A radio.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A Torah.

5. Danny Saunders plans on studying the Talmud and reading the works of whom during his vacation in Chapter 9?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

6. Danny Saunders finds Reuven at the library and reads aloud to him passages from what book in Chapter 8?
(a) The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels.
(b) Jews, God, and History.
(c) The History of the Jews.
(d) Jews, Gentiles, and Christianity.

7. In Chapter 3, Danny's amazing intellect is shown through his memorizations of what?
(a) The Talmud.
(b) The Yeshiva.
(c) The Smicha.
(d) The Goyim.

8. In the beginning of Chapter 3, the hospital patients are listening to the news about what historical event?
(a) The John F. Kennedy assassination.
(b) “D-Day.”
(c) The dropping of the atomic bomb.
(d) The moon landing.

9. What does Reb Saunders ask Reuven while they are alone waiting for tea in Chapter 8?
(a) If Danny has a girlfriend.
(b) How Danny acts at school.
(c) What books Danny is reading.
(d) If Danny has lied to him.

10. Reuven calls Billy’s home to see how his surgery went in Chapter 9. What does Reuven learn?
(a) The operation was successful.
(b) The operation was unsuccessful.
(c) The operation was postponed.
(d) The operation was too risky and will not happen.

11. Reuven learns that Danny’s father only talks to him when in Chapter 4?
(a) When they study the Talmud.
(b) At dinner.
(c) At breakfast.
(d) On weekends.

12. Reuven has a picture of which U.S. President on his wall in Chapter 5?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

13. What is the name of the young blind boy that Reuven meets at the hospital in Chapter 2?
(a) Sidney Goldberg.
(b) Davey Canter.
(c) Jack Rose.
(d) Billy Merritt.

14. In Chapter 8, Reuven describes one of his recent trips to the library when he found an article in what publication?
(a) Psychology Weekly.
(b) The Journal of the American Medical Association.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) The Journal of Symbolic Logic.

15. What is the name of Reuven Malter’s father in the narrative?
(a) Thomas Malter.
(b) Marcus Malter.
(c) David Malter.
(d) Roger Malter.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name is Danny Saunders’ father referred to in the novel?

2. In Chapter 5, Reuven says, "I felt I had crossed into another world, that little pieces of my old self had been left behind on the black asphalt floor of the school yard alongside” what?

3. Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter discover they were born how far apart in Chapter 7?

4. What was responsible for causing Billy’s blindness in the novel?

5. What is a central text of Rabbinic Judaism, considered second to the Torah?

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