Chagiga 2 Quiz

Quiz for Chapter 2 of Tractate Chagiga

1. What is not taught to three or more people at once?
2. What is not taught to two or more people at once?
3. What is not taught to anyone directly?
4. How can it be taught, and to whom?
5. What four things should not be investigated by anyone?
6. What is the issue that one must be concerned with, or else it were better he were never born?
7. Who are the first pair of zugot, and what did they hold about leaning on offerings (semicha) on yom tov?
8. Who are the second pair, and what did they hold?
9. Who are the third pair, and what did they hold?
10. Who are the fourth pair, and what did they hold?
11. Who are the fifth pair, and what did they hold?
12. Who was replaced by whom, and what did the resulting pair hold?
13. Which member of each pair was the nasi and which the av bet din?
14. Does one bring voluntary shelamim on yom tov, according to Bet Shammai? According to Bet Hillel?
15. Does one bring individual olot (re'iya) on yom tov, according to Bet Shammai? According to Bet Hillel?
16. If Shavuot is on Friday, when are re'iya offerings brought, according to Bet Shammai? According to Bet Hillel?
17. If Shavuot is on Shabbat, when are re'iya offerings brought, according to Bet Shammai? According to Bet Hillel?
18. What is special about that day, and why?
19. For what three categories of food must one wash hands (netilat yadaim) if they are tamei?
20. For what category of food must one dip one's hands in a mikva if they are tamei?
21. For what category of food must one go to a mikva, even if only one's hands became tamei?
22. What is the order of importance of holiness categories of foods, from lesser to greater?
23. Does tevila require intention, and what are the implications (regarding eating holy foods)?
24. What are the rules regarding implicit impurity of clothes of different categories of people?
25. Which rule is missing from the Mishna and added back in by the Gemara?
26. What about Yosef ben Yoezer's hand towel?
27. What about Yochanan ben Gudgoda's hand towel?

Chagiga 1 Quiz

1. Who is not required to go to the Beit Hamiqdash each regel holiday and bring the re'iyah offering?
2. According to Beit Shammai, at what age is a child required to go to the Beit Hamiqdash each regel holiday?
3. According to Beit Hillel, what age is it?
4. What kind of offering is the re'iyah offering? The chagiga?
5. According to Beit Shammai, what is the minimum one must spend on the re'iyah offering? On the chagiga offering?
6. According to Beit Hillel, what is the minimum one must spend on the re'iyah offering? On the chagiga offering?
7. On Chol Hamo'ed, for which holiday offering may one use a ma'aser animal (or one bought with ma'aser money), and for which must one use only a non-holy animal?
8. According to Beit Shammai, can a ma'aser animal be brought as a chagiga on the first day of the holiday? According to Beit Hillel?
9. What categories of offerings may a yisrael (non-cohen) use to satisfy the obligation of "shalmei simcha"?
10. What categories of offerings may a cohen use to satisfy the obligation of "shalmei simcha"? Which may he explicitly not use?
11. Four categories of people are to bring different quantities of olot and shlamim on the regel. What are the categories, and what are the quantities?
12. If one failed to bring a chagiga offering on the first day of the regel, when may he bring it, and when may he not?
13. What verse is used to support this point?
14. Who are the two R. Shimons who dispute the interpretation of this verse?
15. What is the interpretation of the first?
16. What is the interpretation of the second?
17. What kind(s) of halachot have no (clear) basis in the Written Law?
18. What kind(s) of halachot have a very small basis in the Written Law? 
19. What expression is used to express this fact?
20. What kind(s) of halachot have a clear and complete basis in the Written Law?

Starting up - Chagiga

I'm starting with Seder Moed, since it has fewer conceptually complicated issues and deals (for the most part) with matters that come up in everyday life. Within the Seder, I'm starting from the shortest tractate, Chagiga, and working my way up to the longer ones, even though this means I'm going in reverse order.

As a general rule, I will treat each chapter (pereq) as a unit of learning; each day will be spent either in reviewing the last new chapter and learning a new chapter, or in review of one or more previously-learned chapters. Each review session begins with completing the quiz on the chapter as best as possible and then checking my answers. I will publish the quizzes as posts on the blog, with the answers in the first comment, so that the quiz is visible without the answers at first.

The initial schedule for Chagiga will look like this (note that I'm scheduling time to make up the quizzes the first time through):

1. Learn chapter 1
2. Compose quiz for chapter 1
3. Review chapter 1, learn chapter 2
4. Compose quiz for chapter 2
5. Review chapter 2, learn chapter 3
6. Compose quiz for chapter 3
7. Review chapter 1, 2
8. Expand quiz for chapter 1
9. Review chapter 2, 3
10. Expand quiz for chapter 2
11. Review chapter 1, 2, 3
12. Expand quiz for chapter 3
13. Review chapter 1, 2
14. Review chapter 2, 3
15. Review chapter 1, 2, 3

After these fifteen days of learning, I should have a solid grasp of the tractate, in less than an hour a day, אי"ה, in time for Rosh Hashana.