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Question 1:

What does the term “Tanakh” refer to?
a) Birthplace of Abraham
b) The Hebrew Bible
c) Festival of the Jewish New Year
d) Female Rabbi

Question 2:

What does the term “Torah” refer to?
a) The study of the Hebrew Bible
b) A Jewish school
c) The Pentateuch
d) The Promised Land

Question 3:

What is midrash?
a) Rabbinic commentary and interpretation
b) A Jewish legal process
c) A book of the Hebrew bible
d) A Hebrew title of respect

Question 4:

Which of the following figures is recognized as a messiah in the Jewish tradition?
a) Moses
b) Jesus
c) Lilith
d) David

Question 5:

What occasion does a Simchat Bat celebrate?
a) Ordination of a Rabbi
b) Naming of a newborn Jewish girl
c) The coming of age of a Jewish boy
d) The first reading of the new year

Question 6:

Which king built the first Jewish Temple?
a) Aaron
b) Herod the Great
c) Solomon
d) Pilate

Question 7:

What form of calendar is the Jewish calendar?
a) Solar
b) Lunar
c) Gregorian
d) Perpetual

Question 8:

In which geographical area did the Sephardic culture develop?
a) Iberian Peninsula
b) Eastern Europe
c) Mesopotamia
d) North America

Question 9:

Which cultural designation is rooted in the community of Jewish exiles who remained in Babylonia?
a) Ashkenazim
b) Hasidim
c) Haredi
d) Mizrahim

Question 10:

Which Jewish philosopher wrote “The Guide of the Perplexed”?
a) Rabbi Hillel
b) Isaac Luria
c) Moses Maimonides
d) Abraham Geiger

Question 11:

Kabbalah a central feature of which stream of Judaism?
a) Reform
b) Humanistic
c) Legal
d) Mystical

Question 12:

In what region did the Hasidic Jewish movement begin?
a) Europe
b) North Africa
c) Middle East
d) North America

Question 13:

What was the lingua franca amongst the Ashkenazim?
a) Ladino
b) Hebrew
c) Yiddish
d) Russian

Question 14:

What does the term “kashrut” refer to?
a) Jewish dietary laws
b) Festival of Booths
c) Traditional Sephardic dessert
d) Prayer shawl

Question 15:

With which Jewish holy day is the shofar associated?
a) Hanukkah
b) Sukkot
c) Shavuot
d) Yom Kippur

Question 16:

What is the title of a traditional Jewish marriage contract?
a) Shema
b) Ketubah
c) Chuppah
d) Get

Question 17:

What historical period/event does the title “Haskalah” refer to?
a) The Babylonian Exile
b) The Egyptian captivity
c) The Jewish Enlightenment
d) The Iberian expulsion

Question 18:

Within which modern branch of Judaism was the first female Rabbi ordained?
a) Humanistic
b) Reconstructionist
c) Orthodox
d) Reform

Question 19:

What is the Hebrew term denoting the Nazi genocide of six million Jews?
a) Holocaust
b) Pogrom
c) Shoah
d) Kristallnacht

Question 20:

In what year was the modern Jewish state of Israel established?
a) 1927
b) 1933
c) 1948
d) 1953

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