1. What young Jewish entrepreneur conceived and created the first comic book?

   A. Max Gaines
   B. Bill Gaines
   C. Jerry Siegel
   D. Harvey Kurtzman

2. What Jewish comic-book creator founded MAD magazine?

   A. Max Gaines
   B. Joe Shuster
   C. Jerry Siegel
   D. Harvey Kurtzman

3. In September 1954, something happened that completely changed the comic book genre. It was:

   A. The release of the scientific study that condemned comic books as a cause of juvenile delinquency
   B. The bankruptcy of the two largest comic book companies
   C. The establishment of Comics Code Authority guidelines censoring depiction of frightening images, such as witches or ghouls, as well as forbidding the portrayal of authority figures in a negative light.
   D. The introduction of the first female superhero

4. Antisemitism in America reached an all-time low in:
   

   A. 1964
   B. 1981
   C. 1992
   D. 1998

5. When John Kerry’s ancestors came to America, they claimed to be Christian Germans from Austria, but were in fact Jews from:

   A. Hungary
   B. Germany
   C. Czechoslovakia
   D. Ireland

6. Who said the following in reference to AIPAC, the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee: “You are the most effective interest group…across the entire planet”?

   A. Paul Wolfowitz
   B. William Kristol
   C. James Moran
   D. Newt Gingrich

7. Which is not an Ashkenazic custom regarding challah during Rosh Hashanah?

   A. Eating a round challah
   B. Baking the challah in the shape of a bird
   C. Eating the traditional elongated challah
   D. Decorating the challah with a ladder of dough

8. Recent studies conducted by the ADL as well as the Institute for Jewish and Community Research in San Francisco on the subject of antisemitism in America showed that, in comparison with studies in the 1990s:

   A. Antisemitism is increasing
   B. Antisemitism is continuing to decrease
   C. Antisemitism is at the same level
   D. Antisemitism has disappeared completely

9. Etrogim have traditionally been thought to have powers associated with:

   A. Strength and power
   B. Fertility and childbirth
   C. Wisdom and knowledge
   D. Love and marriage

10. By the early 1800s, where were the majority of etrogim grown?

    A. Corsica
    B. Corfu
    C. Israel
    D. Spain

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