Themes
Danny
Reuven
Plot points
Miscellaneous
100

All the following are themes explored in The Chosen EXCEPT 

  1. challenges between fathers and sons 

  2. religious vs. secular ways of life 

  3. Jewish persecution and antisemitism 

  4. search for knowledge and meaning 

  5. bonds of friendship 

  6. unrequited romantic love 

6. unrequited romantic love

100

What Danny tells Reuven that he is determined to become

What is a clinical psychologist?
100

The person who injured Reuven's eye

Who is Danny?

100

The president that dies in chapter 11

Franklin Roosevelt

100

Reuven's gym teacher and softball teacher who brings him to the hospital when he gets hurt.

Who is Mr. Galanter?

200

the symbol of being trapped in circumstances and Reuven wishing he could help his friends

What is the spider web and the fly?

200

Which of the following is NOT true about Danny?

1. He has a photographic memory

2. He will one say succeed his father as a tzaddik

3. he is already married with a child

4. he would rather become a psychologist

He is already married with a child
200

The career that Mr. Malter wants Reuven to go into

What is a mathematician/university professor?

200

These people have beards and earlocks and wear black skullcaps or black hats.

Who are the Hasidic Jews?

200

All the following is accurate about Chaim Potok EXCEPT 

  1. he is a novelist, playwright and editor  

  2. he is a conservative rabbi 

  3. he was brought up in Orthodox Jewish home

  4. he taught at Jewish universities 

  5. he was born in Europe and saw the horrors of the Holocaust first-hand

e. he was born in Europe and saw the horrors of the Holocaust first-hand
300

The literary technique that is exemplified in Danny not wanting to become a rabbi even though he must, and Reuven wanting to become a rabbi when he does not have to. 

What is irony?

300

The siblings that Danny has

What is one brother and one sister?

300

How does Reuven react when Danny comes to visit him in the hospital the first time?

Gets angry, tells him to leave, doesn't listen, etc. 

300

The World War 2 event that takes place while Reuven is in the hospital.

What is D-Day?

300

the literary technique that Potok employs throughout the novel

What is imagery?

400

Suggesting a symbolic renewal of his vision after his time in the hospital, Reuven remarks that 

  1. he now can see the spirit of God 

  2. he sees aspects of his house and yard he never noticed before 

  3. he now realizes that he and Danny are like twins pursuing the same goals 

He sees aspects of his house and yard he never noticed before

400

Why is Danny so upset when Levi is taken to the hospital?


He wants Levi to take over the tzaddik position in his place.

400

All the following occurs during Reuven’s extended explanation of a challenging Talmudic passage EXCEPT 

  1. when Rav Gershenson calls on him, he delivers a response that spans 4 days

  2. when Rav Gershenson asks what he, not the commentators, thinks is the meaning of the passage, Reuven falls silent 

  3. Rav Gershenson recommends that Reuven simply make up an interpretation and meaning, just like other commentators 

  4. Rav Gershenson admits that he is unsure of the passage’s meaning as well 

Rav Gershenson recommends that Reuven simply make up an interpretation and meaning, just like other commentators

400

The reason that Danny and Reuven do not talk for two years in college.

What is Mr. Malter's speech on the Zionist movement to create a Jewish state?

400

The father that believes the Holocaust was part of God's will.

Who is Reb Saunders?

500

All the following are distinctive features of novel EXCEPT 

  1. silence 

  2. struggle and suffering 

  3. father-son relationships 

  4. baseball being the best sport

  5. perception and assumption 

  6. impaired sight and figurative blindness 

4. baseball being the best sport

500

The reason that Reb Saunders reluctantly agrees to give Danny his blessing to become a psychologist.

What is Danny promising to remain an observer of the Commandments? (remain a religious Jew)

500

The way Reuven reacts and feels when Danny stops speaking to him

What is angry and devastated?

500

What are Mr. Malter’s efforts within the Zionist Movement based on? 

  1. financial benefit to his family 

  2. worry and fear of the future 

  3. vengeance against Europe for its persecution of Jews 

  4. making a positive impact on the world 

2. worry and fear of the future

500

The term that means freedom to choose your own way of life without obligation to obey the commandments. 

What is Apikorsim?