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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1908, Berlin: A Cabaret - 1923: A Doctor, A Diagnosis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vogel distinctly remember about The God of Vengeance?
(a) It was on Broadway.
(b) It had a love scene between the two women and was written by a newly married man.
(c) It was written in 1906 by a Jewish man.
(d) It first toured Europe before coming to America.

2. What type of plays do the men at the salon want, regarding the Jewish people?
(a) Plays that represent the Jewish people as valiant and heroic.
(b) Plays that show the innocence of the Jewish people.
(c) Plays that tell Jewish tall tales.
(d) Plays that put fear into the hearts of gentiles.

3. In Sholem Asch Shows Lemml America, what does Asch show Lemml?
(a) The Brooklyn Bridge.
(b) The New York harbor.
(c) The Empire State Building.
(d) The Lower East Side.

4. Describe the set.
(a) Lavish and beautiful.
(b) Simple with all of the props coming out of suitcases.
(c) Simple but with some set pieces being flown in.
(d) Realistic.

5. In 1920, Ellis Island: An Impossibly Long Line, the troupe is lined up where?
(a) In the Great Hall on Ellis Island.
(b) On a boat in New York harbor.
(c) At the base of the Statue of Liberty.
(d) Pennsylvania Station.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor NOT recommend for Sholem?

2. What are the real names of Reina and Dorothee?

3. Why does Sholem have Peretz read the part of Yekel?

4. What is Sholem's response as the men hurl insults at him?

5. In 1921, New York City: The Bowery Theatre, the lines that were spoken at previous theatres is now spoken in what language?

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