SAMPLE TEST FOR BUBBIE’S KITCHEN

1. Apples dipped in honey are eaten to symbolically express the hope for a sweet year during this holiday.

• a. Tu B’Shevat
• b. Purim
• c. Shavuot
• d. Rosh Hashanah

2. It is said that the seeds of this fruit number 613 which correspond to the number of mitzvoth, or Biblical commandments that Jews are obliged to fulfill.

• a. blackberry
• b. pineapple
• c. strawberry
• d. pomegranate

3. The seventh and last day of Sukkot is called...

• a. Shemini Atzeret 
• b. Hoshanah Rabbah 
• c. Simhat Torah
• d. Tisha B’Av

4. The second day of Shemini Atzeret has become a happy celebration because on this day, the final verses of the Torah are read in the synagogue and a new cycle of reading is begun anew at Genesis. This holiday is called...

• a. Simhat Torah
• b. Hoshanah Rabbah 
• c. Sukkot
• d. Tisha B’Av

5. During Shemini Atzeret it has become customary to say a solemn prayer for...

• a. peace
• b. a good harvest
• c. rain
• d. long life

6. The holiday “Rosh Hashanah Le’llanot,” or the “New Year of the Trees,” is also known as...

• a. Rosh Hashanah
• b. Tu B’Shevat
• c. Shavuot
• d. Yom Kippur

7. This fruit became popular in Eastern European shtetls during Tu B’Shevat because it was one of the few fruits from Israel that was available during mid-winter.

• a. oranges
• b. apples
• c. carob
• d. pomegranates

8. During this holiday, a seder is sometimes held to celebrate all the varieties of fruit that are produced by trees.

• a. Pesach
• b. Passover
• c. Tisha B'Av
• d. Tu B’Shevat

9. Cheese blintzes are eaten on this holiday because they are dairy and look like the two tablets of the Ten Commandments.

• a. Shavuot
• b. Sukkot
• c. Simhat Torah
• d. Yom Kippur

10. The end of the barley harvest and the offering of the first fruit at the Temple in Jerusalem were reasons for the celebration of this holiday.

• a. Sukkot
• b. Shavuot
• c. Pesach
• d. Hanukkah

11. During Shavuot, it is customary to eat...

• a. new fruit
• b. meat
• c. dairy products
• d. eggs

12. The most important Jewish holiday is...

• a. Shabbat
• b. Yom Kippur
• c. Rosh Hashanah
• d. Pesach

13. The holiday that is mentioned in the Ten Commandments.

• a. Yom Kippur
• b. Shabbat
• c. Pesach
• d. Shavuot

14. Two of these are traditional for a Shabbat meal to commemorate the giving of two portions of manna in the desert before Shabbat.

• a. candles
• b. blessings
• c. glasses of wine
• d. challot

15. The name eir kichlah, which are light, crunchy cookies is in what language?

• a. Yiddish
• b. Hebrew
• c. Spanish
• d. Ladino

16. Jews who speak Yiddish are of this background.

• a. Sephardic
• b. Israeli
• c. Ashkenazic
• d. Middle Eastern

17. Jews that have Turkish or Greek backgrounds are...

• a. Sephardic
• b. Ashkenazic
• c. Yiddish
• d. Ladino

18. The evil minister of the king in ancient Persia was...

• a. Ahasueras
• b. Mordechai
• c. Cain
• d. Haman

19. The Jewish queen who risked her life to save her people was...

• a. Vashti
• b. Esther
• c. Ruth
• d. Deborah

20. In Israel, a carnival called Ad’lo’yada takes place to celebrate this holiday.

• a. Sukkot
• b. Tu B’Shevat
• c. Simhat Torah
• d. Purim

21. Special triangular cookies that are eaten during the holiday of Purim are...

• a. eir kichlah
• b. egg bow ties
• c. hamantashen
• d. madeleines

22. The scroll that tells the story about the holiday of Purim is...

• a. the Torah
• b. the Haggadah
• c. the Megillah
• d. the Talmud

23. Purim takes place during the Hebrew month of...

• a. Adar
• b. Shevat
• c. Sivan
• d. Av

24. In English, kasha is called

• a. whole wheat
• b. buckwheat groats
• c. millet
• d. hominy

25. Kasha is a...

• a. grain
• b. herb
• c. fruit
• d. root

26. A small Eastern European community was called

• a. ghetto
• b. commune
• c. shtetl
• d. châteaux

27. Russian and Polish Jews are…

• a. Sephardic
• b. Ashkenazi
• c. Ladino
• d. Middle Eastern

28. The festive meal that is enjoyed during Purim is called a

• a. Seudah
• b. Seder
• c. Megillah
• d. Mishloah Manot

29. People who prepared knishes came from a background that was...

• a. Ashkenazic
• b. Sephardic
• c. Middle Eastern
• d. American

30. Knishes are sold during the Ad’lo’yada carnival in...

• a. New Orleans
• b. Athens
• c. New York
• d. Tel-Aviv

31. The holiday of Shavuot is also known as...

• a. Hag Ha’Katzir
• b. Hag Ha’Bikurim
• c. Zeman Matan Torahtenu
• d. all of these

32. Shavuot is celebrated immediately following the seven-week period during which the _______ is/are counted.

• a. tithe
• b. omer
• c. trees
• d. bikurim

33. Pentecost is a Greek word meaning...

• a. fifty
• b. seven weeks
• c. lots
• d. law

34. Triangular, filled noodle dumplings are called...

• a. hamantashen
• b. eir kichlah
• c. kasha varnishkes 
• d. kreplach

35. The Jewish people are divided into three groups—Levite, Israelite, and...

• a. Ashkenazim
• b. Sephardim
• c. Kohenim
• d. Orthodox

36. An ultra-orthodox area of Jerusalem is called..

• a. Tel-Aviv
• b. The Old City 
• c. Mea Shearim
• d. Ramat Gan

37. Lukschen is a Yiddish word which means...

• a. noodles
• b. pudding
• c. cheese
• d. milk

38. The Yiddish word mandlen means...

• a. bread
• b. almonds
• c. nuts
• d. sprinkle

39. Another name for mandel bread is...

• a. hamantashen
• b. eir kichlah
• c. kugel
• d. kamish bread

40. In Yiddish, the rendered fat from geese, ducks, or chicken is called...

• a. lukschen
• b. schmaltz
• c. latkes
• d. kreplach

41. In Yiddish, the cracklings of skin that remain after rendering fat are called...

• a. schmaltz
• b. latkes
• c. gribbenes
• d. mandlen

42. Potato latkes, along with other foods fried in oil are traditional for which holiday?

• a. Purim
• b. Shavuot
• c. Hanukkah
• d. Pesach

43. If potatoes are grated and then are left to sit for a long time, they...

• a. fry better
• b. turn dark
• c. dry out
• d. taste better

44. Buttery, crumb-coated potato dumplings, also known as gnocchi in Italy are also called...

• a. latkes
• b. gribbenes
• c. slishkas
• d. kugel

45. Stuffed cabbage is also known as...

• a. holopches
• b. praakes
• c. galuptzi
• d. all of these

46. Stuffed foods, in general, including stuffed cabbage are traditional for this holiday.

• a. Purim
• b. Sukkot
• c. Shavuot
• d. Rosh Hashanah

47. In Yiddish, a sweet stew that has carrots and sweet potatoes as the main ingredients is called...

• a. tzimmes
• b. kugel
• c. einbren
• d. gahntze

48. An einbren is made with..

• a. carrots
• b. flour and fat
• c. potatoes
• d. sugar and honey

49. In Yiddish, the expression used to describe a major big deal is…

• a. Ad’lo’yada
• b. mishi malfouf
• c. gahntze tzimmes
• d. mandlen

50. The orange pigment that is found in carrots and sweet potatoes is...

• a. Cajun roux
• b. vitamin A
• c. beta-carotene
• d. cholesterol