History in The Chosen
Close Reading
Miscellaneous
Reuven
Danny
100
The month President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in
What is April?
100
The name of Reuven's eye doctor
What is Dr. Snydman?
100
The narrator of the story
What is Reuven?
100
The name of Reuven's father
What is David Malter?
100
The sect of Judaism Danny identifies with
What is Hasidism?
200
The American general in the Battle of the Bulge?
What is General George S. Patton?
200
The name of the area Reuven and Danny live in
What is Williamsburg?
200
The basic theme of the story
What is friendship?
200
The language, besides English, Reuven's yeshiva teaches in
What is Hebrew?
200
The college Danny attends
What is Hirsch College?
300
The year (and place) was Israel (the man) born in
What is 1700/Poland?
300
The amount of time Danny and Reuven were forced to spend apart by Reb Saudners
What is two years?
300
A person with and extreme and uncritical enthusiasm in religion or politics
What is a fanatic?
300
Manya's previous location of residence
What is Russia?
300
Danny's psychology professor at Hirsch College
What is Professor Appleman?
400
The historical figure that David Malter compared Danny to
What is Solomon Maimon?
400
The month David Malter returns from the hospital after his heart attack
What is March?
400
The number of chapters in The Chosen
What is 18?
400
The Talmud teacher Reuven and Danny share at Hirsch
What is Rav Gershenson?
400
Reb Saunders' reason for raising Danny in silence
What is to create a tzaddik soul?
500
The leader of the Cossacks in 1648
What is Bogdan Chmielnicki?
500
The month the rumor spread about a Hirsch College graduate's death
What is June?
500
Of or pertaining to a parish (or synagogue in The Chosen)
What is parochial?
500
The place Reuven goes to after Hirsch and his smicha
What is the rabbinate?
500
Danny's stance on Zionism; pro or anti
What is pro?
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