Jewish Literature Quiz

Question 1 of 10

What subjects did Russian-born Hebrew poets Hayim Nahman Bialik and Saul Tchernichovsky write about in the late 1800s?

The land of Israel
Love
Zionism
Faith
All of the above

Question 2 of 10

Which of these books is NOT about the Jewish immigrant experience?

Call it Sleep
The Rise of David Levinsky
The Ritual Bath
The Promised Land

Question 3 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 4 of 10

Which is NOT a major category of Ladino literature?

Translations of sacred texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the High Holiday prayerbook, and the Passover Haggadah
Rabbinic literature, including commentaries on Jewish texts and Jewish law
Folk tales, fables, proverbs, poems, and short stories
Novels, TV shows, and movies, both newly written and those that were made from older Ladino folk tales

Question 5 of 10

Who wrote "The Vale of Cedars," a reaction against "Ivanhoe"?

Grace Aguilar
Rivkah Kiktiner
I.L. Peretz
Mendele Mokher Seforim
Sara Copio Sullam

Question 6 of 10

Which of these Jewish movements was responsible for the surge in 18th-century Jewish literature?

The Haskalah movement.
The Hasidic movement.
The Reform movement.
The Mussar movement.
None of the above.

Question 7 of 10

What is the name of Erica Jong's sexually provocative and satirical novel about a Jewish woman from New York?

Fear of Flying
Tropic of Cancer
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Fear of Fifty

Question 8 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?