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

2. How does Sholem feel every time he meets with Mr. Peretz?
(a) Anxious and worried.
(b) Comfortable and welcome.
(c) Like one of the prostitutes in his play.
(d) Very happy and excited.

3. When did the obscenity trial take place?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1929.

4. Who wrote the play, The God of Vengeance?
(a) Rebecca Taichman.
(b) Sholem Asch.
(c) Paual Vogel.
(d) Madje Asch.

5. What language does Peretz say is their mother tongue?
(a) German.
(b) Polish.
(c) Yiddish.
(d) Russian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Vogel and Taichmann first begin to work on Indecent?

2. In The Curtain Falls, how does Virginia change the blocking?

3. In the love scene between Manke and Rifkele, what does Dorothee do, regarding the newly-cast Virginia?

4. When was Indecent's first world premieres?

5. The troupe suddenly goes into a rendition of what song about the rich getting rich and the poor being laid off but everyone is having fun anyway?

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