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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1923, On Broadway - 1923, The Verdict: People of the State of New York vs. The God of Vengeance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Madje's first response to Sholem's play?
(a) What is this trash?
(b) Oh.
(c) Wow.
(d) Chas v'shalom.

2. Who in The God of Vengeance finds the cast guilty of presenting an indecent, obscene, and immoral play, exhibition, and drama?
(a) The People of the State of New York.
(b) The People of the United States of America.
(c) The People of the Borough of Manhattan.
(d) The People of the State of New Jersey.

3. As the troupe sings a song that ends with a kickline, they begin dressed as what?
(a) Gypsies.
(b) Hasidim.
(c) Businessmen.
(d) Hippies.

4. When Mrs. Peretz enters, for what is the excitement in the house not good?
(a) The men in the salon.
(b) The Jewish people.
(c) Mr. Peretz's digestion.
(d) Mr. Peretz's heart.

5. 1923, On Broadway lists what?
(a) All of the current shows on Broadway.
(b) The locations The cast had traveled in which to perform The God of Vengeance.
(c) All of the current shows on Broadway except The God of Vengeance.
(d) All the cast members of The God of Vengeance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lemml react to the love scene the men are reading?

2. Peretz says that if Sholem must throw stones, he should throw them where?

3. In Full Company Meeting: The Provincetown Playhouse, how does the cast respond when they learn that the Broadway production will not include the romantic rain scene at the end of the play?

4. What does Peretz advise Sholem to do with his manuscript at the end of this section?

5. Why does Nakhmen groan as they prepare to read Sholem's play?

(see the answer key)

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