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Sukkot Quiz

How much do you know about this fall holiday?

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Sukkot Quiz

Sukkot is when the sukkah, the non-permanent outdoor hut, is built. Sukkot was also once a holiday of agricultural thanksgiving, and this is celebrated with the holiday’s other ritual items: the lulav and etrog. How much do you know about Sukkot?

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Question 1 of 10

Sukkot is sometimes called z'man simhatenu. What does this mean?

The harvest festival
The season of rain
The season of our joy
To dwell in the sukkah

Question 2 of 10

True or false: It is a requirement to decorate the sukkah immediately after it is built.

True
False

Question 3 of 10

What does the sukkah represent?

The shacks the Jews had to live in after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem
The huts the Israelites lived in during their wandering in the desert after leaving Egypt
The huts the Israelites built in God's honor at the bottom of Mount Sinai when they received the Torah
The tabernacle

Question 4 of 10

Which is not a pilgrimage festival?

Sukkot
Passover
Hanukkah
Shavuot

Question 5 of 10

Which historical Jewish holiday actually first took place during the Sukkot celebration?

Purim
Hanukkah
Yom Ha'atzmaut
Yom Yerushalayim

Question 6 of 10

Outside Israel, on the evening following the seventh day of Sukkot, what holiday begins?

Tu Bishvat
Tisha B’Av
Simchat Torah
Shemini Atzeret

Question 7 of 10

This book is customarily read on Sukkot

Esther
Ruth
Ecclesiastes
Song of Songs
Job

Question 8 of 10

For people without a sukkah at home, which of these is a potential option for eating in a sukkah?

A local synagogue.
A Hillel.
A kosher restaurant.
All of the above.
None of the above.

Question 9 of 10

Where are you allowed to shake a lulav?

Only at home.
Only in synagogue.
Only in a Jew's home.
Only outside.
Anywhere.

Question 10 of 10

Which is the customary order for waving the lulav and etrog?

Down, up, south, north, west, east
East, south, west, north, up, down
East, west, north, south, down, up
West, north, south, east, up, down

lulav

Pronounced: LOO-lahv (oo as in boo), Origin: Hebrew, a bundle of branches representing three species — willow, myrtle and palm — which are shaken together with the etrog on Sukkot.

Sukkot

Pronounced: sue-KOTE, or SOOH-kuss (oo as in book), Origin: Hebrew, a harvest festival in which Jews eat inside temporary huts, falls in the Jewish month of Tishrei, which usually coincides with September or October.

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