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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Reuven Malter’s home is described as what in Chapter 5?
(a) A blackstone.
(b) A hardstone.
(c) A whitestone.
(d) A brownstone.

2. What does Danny Saunders want to be when he grows up in Chapter 3?
(a) A psychologist.
(b) A meteorologist.
(c) A bus driver.
(d) A chemist.

3. Reuven has a picture of what physicist on his wall in Chapter 5?
(a) Abraham Bennet.
(b) Riccardo Giacconi.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Roger Penrose.

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

5. Danny Saunders explains to Reuven in Chapter 8 that he wants to read Freud but first must learn what in order to read his original writings?
(a) Polish.
(b) Spanish.
(c) German.
(d) Dutch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reuven tell Mr. Savo he wants to be when he grows up in Chapter 3?

2. Reuven learns that Billy’s family is moving where in Chapter 9?

3. According to Reuven’s father in Chapter 6, the Cossacks were members of what church in Russia?

4. What does Reuven’s father refer to as discussion about the Talmud that has no relationship to the world in Chapter 6?

5. Whose eye must be removed at the end of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Whose baseball teams play against one another in Chapter 1? How are these teams attired and where do they play?

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

5. What two things does David Malter say the Talmud says a person should do for himself in Chapter 4?

6. What does Reuven consider about his first foray into the Hasidic world in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

10. What is the implication when Reuven’s eyes are tested in the light in Chapter 2?

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