Jewish Literature Quiz

Question 1 of 10

What is Franz Kafka's book Metamorphosis about?

Josef K. is arrested and prosecuted for a crime that is not revealed to him, and his innocence seems impossible to prove, despite the lack of evidence
Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up one morning and finds that he has turned into a "monstrous vermin"
A man named K. takes a room in a village while waiting for his appointment at the nearby castle and talks to the local village-people, who are all stuck in the town without an apparent purpose
A teenage boy is sent away by his family to a strange alternate version of the United States where the Statue of Liberty holds a sword in her hand instead of a torch, and a single bridge stretches between New York and Boston
The influence of being raised Jewish in the pre-WWII environment of Prague

Question 2 of 10

What is Jewish literature?

Literature written by Jews
Literature written in a Jewish language
Literature with Jewish content
No definition is completely adequate

Question 3 of 10

Modern Jewish children's literature first emerged in America less than 100 years ago with what book?

The Adventures of K'tonton, by Sadie Rose Weilerstein
Molly's Pilgrim, by Barbara Cohen
Sydney Taylor's five All-of-a-Kind Family books
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl
Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry

Question 4 of 10

When did Ladino writers start to use the Ladino language to keep their disparate culture alive?

The 1880s
1492
1945
1992

Question 5 of 10

In what language did Franz Kafka write?

Czech
Russian
German
Yiddish
English

Question 6 of 10

Which of these is NOT an American Jewish poet?

Samuel Menashe
Emma Lazarus
Paul Celan
Allen Ginsberg

Question 7 of 10

In Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer is on a quest to the Ukraine to find a woman named Augustine, who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Who is the author?

Saul Bellow
David Bezmozgis
Jonathan Safran Foer
Joan Leegant

Question 8 of 10

Philip Roth's last novel in the Death Trilogy resurrects his literary alter-ego of eight previous novels, Nathan Zuckerman. What is the title of this last book?

The Dying Animal
Exit Ghost
Everyman
The Ghost Writer

Question 9 of 10

Who was Daniel Levi De Barrios?

A descendant of a Marrano family
A Jewish poet
A contributor to Spanish literature
All of these

Question 10 of 10

Which book came out in 1960, around the time of Adolf Eichmann's arrest in Argentina, and eventually became the most frequently read story to emerge from the Holocaust?

The Jews of Silence
Night
The Accident
The Gates of the Forest

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