1. Which Jewish comics writer created the very first graphic novel, inaugurating a new genre?

   A. Will Eisner
   B. Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber)
   C. Chris Claremont
   D. Jack Kirby (Jack Kurtzberg)

2. According to most rabbinical scholars, genetic engineering

   A. Is considered a transgression against the natural or Divine order
   B. Is not a violation of Jewish law
   C. Is acceptable within Jewish law so long as it is carried out on animals and not on humans
   D. Is a good profession for nice Jewish boys and girls (“My son, the genetic engineer”)

3. What are the roots of the Jewish tradition of eating chicken on Shabbat?

   A. Once the Sabbath became known as “the Queen” (the Kabbalists in Safed having made reference to Shabbat as the Queen as they celebrated “Receiving the Sabbath”), Jews throughout the world prepared food as if it were royalty, and chicken, then relatively scarce in certain communities, became the chosen fare
   B. Once the Sabbath became known as “the Queen,” Jews turned to Queen Elizabeth, who favored chicken, and followed her example
   C. Chicken was deemed mystical fare by the Jewish Kabbalists in Safed, and Jews flocked to the food for its purported healing powers
   D. To this day Jewish scholars debate which came first—the chicken or the egg

4. In the comic book Green Lantern, the little green men who served as masters of the Green Lantern Corps were designed by cartoonist Gil Kane (born Eli Katz) to resemble which notable Jewish figure?
   

   A. Albert Einstein
   B. David Ben-Gurion
   C. Hank Greenberg
   D. Woody Allen

5. What is the Mussar movement?

   A. A movement which focuses on individual character traits that may be out of balance in our lives
   B. A movement which focuses on petitioning God to heal our physical, spiritual, and emotional wounds
   C. An unorthodox movement which instructed Jews on the necessity of abstinence in order to communicate with God
   D. An association of Jewish trumpeters

6. The oft-repeated quote “Let all who are hungry come and eat” appears where in Jewish writing?

   A. The Bible (Prophet Micah)
   B. The Passover haggadah
   C. The Talmud (Rabbi Azariah)
   D. The prayerbook for Yom Kippur

7. What laudable action did President Richard Nixon take to help the Jewish people?

   A. He signed a bill which made antisemitism a federal crime
   B. He inaugurated and led America’s first Israel Solidarity parade
   C. He ordered arms airlifted to Israel just in time to save the Jewish state from possible destruction during the Yom Kippur War
   D. He headlined free of charge at Grossinger’s

8. What are niggunim?

   A. Divine sparks
   B. Inaccessible memories
   C. Wordless melodies
   D. Love songs

9. One late medieval Jewish text complains about children’s public behavior, including

   A. Reenacting in synagogue the battle between David and Goliath
   B. Urinating in the corners of synagogues
   C. Writing graffiti inside the synagogue’s prayer books
   D. Playing Game Boys during the High Holiday sermon

10. What are the “miSinai” melodies?

    A. Melodies said to have been given to Moses at Mount Sinai
    B. The oldest liturgical music in the Ashkenazi tradition.
    C. The oldest liturgical music in the Sephardi tradition.
    D. Yodeling melodies for mountain climbing

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