Jewish Literature Quiz

Question 1 of 10

Saul Bellow is the only author who has ever won the National Book Award three times. For which three books did he win?

The Old System, Mosby's Memoirs, and Tell Me a Riddle
To Jerusalem and Back, Something to Remember Me By, and The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet
Mr. Sammler's Planet, Herzog, and To Jerusalem and Back

Question 2 of 10

In Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer is on a quest to the Ukraine to find a woman named Augustine, who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Who is the author?

Saul Bellow
David Bezmozgis
Jonathan Safran Foer
Joan Leegant

Question 3 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 4 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 5 of 10

True or false: Saul Bellow grew up speaking Yiddish in an Orthodox Jewish home, but he never locates his characters in this culture.

True
False

Question 6 of 10

In "Bee Season," to what does Eliza Neumann's brother attribute her spelling bee triumphs?

Their parents' exhaustive training.
The fact that they were raised speaking both English and Hebrew.
A supernatural kabbalistic gift.
A combination of all three.
None of the above.

Question 7 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?

The Jews of Silence
Night
The Accident
The Gates of the Forest

Question 8 of 10

Who was S.Y. Agnon?

An Israeli who won the Nobel Prize for literature
An author who conflated his own biography with his fictional writing
An influence on A. B. Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld, and Yehuda Amichai
All of these

Question 9 of 10

Which of these Jewish writers was Polish?

Bruno Schulz
Isaac Babel
Grace Aguilar
Primo Levi

Question 10 of 10

Which of these is NOT an American Jewish poet?

Samuel Menashe
Emma Lazarus
Paul Celan
Allen Ginsberg

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