Deck 10: Encountering Judaism: The Way of Gods People

Question 1

What is the definition of anti-Semitism?

A)opposition to the state of Israel
B)opposition to Jews, Arabs, and other Semitic peoples
C)opposition to Jewish religious belief
D)prejudice and discrimination against the Jewish people

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Jewish New Year, in September or October depending on how the Jewish lunar calendar matches the solar calendar, is called:

A)Hanukkah.
B)Rosh Hashanah.
C)Yom Kippur.
D)Sukkot.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What six-pointed figure that is the most common symbol of Judaism today?

A)chai
B)menorah
C)Star of David
D)Ark of the Covenant

Answer 3

C

Question 4

One of the oldest symbols of Judaism is the candelabrum know as the:

A)chai.
B)menorah.
C)Star of David.
D)Ark of the Covenant.

Question 5

In the context of life after death, which of the following statements is true?

A)Judaism propagates the idea that all souls enter heaven.
B)Christianity and Islam do not rely on the hope of heaven after death to motivate good conduct.
C)The sacred texts of Christianity and Islam speak often about life after death; Jewish text, not so much.
D)The Jewish Tanak speaks in detail about afterlife.

Question 6

What term literally meaning "destruction" describes the Nazi genocide of Jews in World War II?

A)halakhah
B)Shoah
C)Shema
D)Kabbalah

Question 7

Which of the following defines Hasidism?

A)It is a lay movement of Torah teachers who later became religious leaders.
B)It is a Jewish mystical movement that stresses joyful emotion, which arose in the 1700s.
C)It is a separatist ultra-Torah-observant movement at the Qumran settlement on the Dead Sea.
D)It is a Jewish movement that claimed the middle ground between Reform and Orthodoxy.

Question 8

Which of the following defines a covenant?

A)It refers to a gathering of local Jews in a congregation for worship and community life.
B)It is the agreement in which God promised to be with Abraham and his many descendants and Abraham promised to follow God.
C)It includes the teachings and commandments conveyed by Moses, particularly in the first five books of the Bible.
D)It is a system of Jewish mysticism emphasizing the immediate, personal, and emotional experience of God.

Question 9

What is the festival of "tabernacles" or "booths," a seven-day harvest celebration linked to the wandering of the Hebrews after the Exodus?

A)Hanukkah
B)Rosh Hashanah
C)Yom Kippur
D)Sukkot

Question 10

What refers to a special Passover meal with various foods, including unleavened bread?

A)seder
B)halakhah
C)Purim
D)Sukkot

Question 11

When the leaders of the southern kingdom of Israel came back from exile in Babylon in the 530s B.C.E., the name of their larger tribe became the name of the political area, and the people who lived there were called:

A)Protestants.
B)Parsis.
C)Judahites.
D)Armenians .

Question 12

Identify a true statement about Judaism.

A)All Jews consider Jewishness a matter of religion, not of ethnic status or cultural identity.
B)Throughout history, it has always been possible to give up Judaism and still call oneself Jewish.
C)Throughout history, the ancestors of the Jews have only been referred to as Hebrews.
D)The people who live in the modern nation of Israel are called Israelis, not "Israelites."

Question 13

The belief that only one God exists is called:

A)polytheism.
B)monotheism.
C)atheism.
D)pantheism.

Question 14

The predominant biblical image of afterlife is a shadowy underworld, a land of darkness and silence called:

A)halakhah.
B)Shoah.
C)Sheol.
D)shiva.

Question 15

An important part of Jewish monotheism is a basic statement of faith from Deuteronomy 6 that begins "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is One"; the name for this statement is:

A)Kethuvim.
B)Tanak.
C)Shema.
D)Septuagint.

Question 16

What movement led by Abraham Geiger was the first new form of Judaism to arise?

A)Reconstructionist movement
B)Reform movement
C)Orthodox movement
D)Conservative movement

Question 17

Which of the following statements is true of Jewish teachings?

A)Jewish morality rests on the foundation of polytheism.
B)A fundamental Jewish teaching is that humans physically look like God.
C)Jews believe that humans have a moral sense to know what is right.
D)The Bible explains the "image of God" in detail.

Question 18

Which of the following describes the Babylonian Talmud?

A)the "walk" of life, or the way of moral obedience to God
B)a Jewish law code, a compilation of the "oral Torah"
C)the sacred box in the tabernacle
D)a town or city neighborhood to which Jews were restricted

Question 19

What term refers to the place in a synagogue where the Torah scrolls are kept?

A)ward
B)ark
C)stake
D)sect

Question 20

What is the modern organization promoting Jewish immigration into Palestine?

A)Hasidic Judaism
B)Zionism
C)Masorti
D)Masorti Judaism

Question 21

_________, meaning "traditionalist," is the name of the Conservative movement in Europe and Israel.

A)Hasidism
B)The Pharisees
C)Masorti
D)The Essenes

Question 22

What term meaning "son of the commandment," refers to a male's assumption of responsibility before God for keeping the Torah?

A)bris milah
B)Rosh Hashanah
C)Yom Kippur
D)bar mitzvah

Question 23

In the context of the beliefs of Orthodox Jews, which of the following statements is true of circumcision?

A)It is a religious measure.
B)It is not performed if it falls on the Sabbath.
C)It is a day of mourning in the Jewish tradition.
D)It is done primarily for health benefits.

Question 24

In the context of Jewish funeral rituals, what refers to a prayer of faith and petition said every day during the light mourning period of eleven months after shiva?

A)Purim
B)Shavuot
C)Kaddish
D)Rosh Hashanah

Question 25

Identify a true statement about Judaism in North America.

A)Reform Judaism in North America believes that the Torah is divinely written and inspired.
B)Reform Jews in North America believe in the observance of many traditional commandments.
C)Conservative Judaism occupies the ground between Orthodoxy and Reform in North America.
D)Orthodox Jews in North America tend to have small families and do not resist assimilation.

Question 26

_________ is the system of Jewish mysticism emphasizing the immediate, personal, and emotional experience of God.

A)Halakhah
B)Kabbalah
C)Shema
D)Shoah

Question 27

Identify a true statement about a bar mitzvah ceremony.

A)It is performed on the eighth day of a boy's life.
B)It creates the beginning of the obligation to obey the Torah.
C)It has been practiced since the inception of Judaism.
D)It is a coming-of-age ceremony.

Question 28

Jewish freedom from Christian and state control in Europe after 1800 is referred to as:

A)resurrection.
B)emancipation.
C)assimilation.
D)acculturation.

Question 29

This Yiddish term for "covenant of circumcision," a formal name for circumcision and involves surgically removing the foreskin of the penis, is:

A)bris milah.
B)bat mitzvah.
C)Yom Kippur.
D)Rosh Hashanah.

Question 30

_________ is the term used to refer to Jews in medieval and modern times living in the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain.

A)Hasidic
B)Ashkenazi
C)Masorti
D)Sephardic

Question 31

_________ is the term used to refer to Jews in medieval and modern times living in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe.

A)Hasidic
B)Ashkenazi
C)Masorti
D)Sephardic

Question 32

Those who read out loud from the Jewish Torah scrolls in the synagogue always use a _________ to follow their place in the text.

A)pair of cotton gloves
B)a silver pointer
C)a pencil
D)a ribbon place marker

Question 33

_________ celebrates the escape of the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery.

A)Yom Kippur
B)Hanukkah
C)Rosh Hashanah
D)Passover

Question 34

In the context of Jewish weddings, which of the following statements is true?

A)Jewish wedding ceremonies are always held in a synagogue.
B)Judaism strongly encourages marriage and family life.
C)Judaism has strict laws against intermarriage.
D)Jewish weddings involve a small and modest ceremony.

Question 35

Which of the following statements is true of kosher food?

A)Rabbis bless food to make it kosher.
B)Kosher food is closely linked with Jewish identity.
C)Kosher rules are not observed during Passover.
D)Raw vegetables are never kosher.

Question 36

Which of the following is a part of the Jewish funeral ritual?

A)The body of the deceased is cremated and not buried.
B)The body of the deceased is buried within forty-eight hours of death.
C)The body of the deceased is left alone.
D)The body of the deceased is embalmed soon after death.

Question 37

The term _________ refers to a town or city neighborhood to which Jews were restricted.

A)ward
B)ghetto
C)stake
D)ark

Question 38

In the context of marriage, among Ashkenazi Jews, which of the following is true?

A)monogamy has been the rule since the 900s C.E.
B)intermarriage became illegal in the past century
C)polygamy was permitted until the 1900s
D)identity is traced through the father and not the mother

Question 39

Which of the following statements is true of Judaism in Israel?

A)The dynamism that Judaism has in Israel is not found in the West.
B)Orthodox Jews are not allowed to serve on religious councils in Israel.
C)The Orthodox movement is the only branch of Judaism legally recognized in Israel.
D)Only Non-Orthodox Jews may perform marriages and conversions in Israel.

Question 40

The _________, a modern movement founded by Samson Raphael Hirsch, is the least liberal of the Jewish branches.

A)Reconstructionist movement
B)Reform movement
C)Orthodox movement
D)Conservative movement

Question 41

All forms of Judaism in the medieval and modern world are built on, or react to, the Talmud.

Question 42

Judaism as a whole has several official statements of its essential teachings.

Question 43

Jewish morality and ethics rest on the foundation of ethical monotheism.

Question 44

_________ refers to a body of ritual Jewish law dealing with what foods can be eaten, and how those foods must be prepared and consumed.

A)Kosher
B)Purim
C)Sukkot
D)Shema

Question 45

What is the significance of the circumcision ritual or bris milah for Jews?

Question 46

The main Jewish synagogue service takes place on either Friday evening or Saturday morning, both of which fall on the Sabbath day.

Question 47

The Tanak talks in detail about afterlife, and Judaism as a whole today dwells on it.

Question 48

Discuss the views related to modern Jewish ethics.

Question 49

Jewish immigration to North America decreased sharply in the early 1880s.

Question 50

_________, which literally means "daughter of the commandment," refers to the assumption of responsibility before God for keeping the Torah.In Orthodox Judaism, this ceremony is usually little more than a modest party to mark a girl's thirteenth birthday, if it is held at all.

A)Bris milah
B)Rosh Hashanah
C)Yom Kippur
D)Bat mitzvah

Question 51

Jewish wedding ceremonies are always held in synagogues, not outdoors or in hotels.

Question 52

All sorts of ethnic foods can be kosher.

Question 53

Discuss the Jewish beliefs about God.

Question 54

Around 1800 C.E., for all Jews, Jewishness became a matter of religion, not of ethnic status and cultural identity.

Question 55

Explain the Jewish beliefs about life after death.

Question 56

How does the Jewish community celebrate the Sabbath?

Question 57

Judaism teaches polytheism, meaning that many deities exist.

Question 58

The bar/bat mitzvah ceremony creates the beginning of the obligation to obey the Torah.

Question 59

Jewish groups today have sharply differing views of eternal life, even differing on whether there is such a thing.

Question 60

Circumcision is a ritual followed only by Orthodox Jews.

Question 61

Discuss the presence of Judaism in North America.

Question 62

What are the common Jewish funeral rituals?

Question 63

Discuss the purpose of Jewish practices relating to death and mourning.

Question 64

Describe Jewish wedding ceremonies.