What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Quiz

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As Orthodox Jews, Mark and Lauren are generally not allowed to touch one another in public. Why is it important that Mark reaches out to touch Lauren's hand while they play the Anne Frank game? (from Part 6)

It is an attempt on his part to seem warm and caring to her while she deliberates.

It demonstrates the emotional openness of their relationship.

It shows how he no longer cares about the laws of Orthodox Judaism.

It represents Mark finally giving Lauren the physical intimacy she has been longing for.

What does Mark's antidote about Jebediah drinking a Coke represent? (from Part 3)

How everyone tries to police the actions of others based on assumptions -- but it is nobody's business how others interpret their identities.

How Mormons are worse than Jews, when it comes to substance abuse.

How he is superior to Jebediah, because he obeys his religion's laws.

How everyone is a hypocrite about their religious beliefs in their own ways.

What is Mark's opinion of South Florida? (from Part 1)

There are not enough Jews.

It is an easy place to live, especially relative to Israel.

It is basically the Israel of the United States.

It is morally bankrupt.

What is the significance of the two couples dancing in a broken hora in the rain? (from Part 5)

It shows how they have all become close, life-long friends.

It shows how they are all willing to ignore the law against mixed dancing when it's enjoyable.

It shows how their senses of Judaism cannot connect to each other.

It shows how, though they identify as Jewish differently, they can still participate in Judaism together.

Why does Mark not believe that it is possible to imagine him as non-Jewish, for the purposes of the Anne Frank game? (from Part 6)

As an Orthodox Jew, he simply looks too stereotypically Jewish.

He does not think you can imagine someone as anything other than what they are.

Judaism is so central to his sense of identity that he cannot imagine his life as anything else.

His marriage is too important to his sense of identity, and not being Jewish would mean not being married to Lauren.