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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 name of the nurse who is in charge of Reuven Malter in the hospital in Chapter 2?
2. What was responsible for causing Billy’s blindness in the novel?
3. In Chapter 4, Reuven's father tells him that "[t]he Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself.” Reuven chimes in to say that the second thing is to acquire what?
4. What does Danny Saunders tell Reuven when he visits him at the hospital in Chapter 3?
5. In Chapter 8, Danny reads aloud about what historical figure that invented the idea of the tzaddik?
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. What does Reuven’s father say he understands about Danny and Reuven’s place in Danny’s life in Chapter 6?
3. How does Reuven become injured during the game in Chapter 1? How does the game end?
4. What is indicated by David Malter’s description of the fortunate and unfortunate in Chapter 4?
5. What does Reuven discover about Billy Merritt in Chapter 9?
6. How is Reuven’s health in the beginning of Chapter 9? What do he and Danny discuss when they meet?
7. How is Reuven’s relationship with his father illustrated in Chapter 3?
8. What does Reuven’s father reveal to Reuven about his condition and surgery in Chapter 2?
9. What is demonstrated by Danny’s interests in psychoanalysis in the novel?
10. What is significant about Danny’s and Reuven’s aspirations within their synagogues in Chapter 3?
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 F.D.R., Albert Einstein and Tchaikovsky. Why does the author choose to mention each of these individuals as heroes to the protagonist? What is each individual’s historical significance?
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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