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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. How did Vogel finish up her days?
(a) Listening to Wiegela and weeping.
(b) Listening to recordings of Isaac Perlman.
(c) Practicing yoga and deep breathing.
(d) Watching films on the Holocaust.

2. What do the men think of the ending of the play?
(a) Lemmls finds this ending to be wonderful, while the other men are shocked at the desecration of the Torah.
(b) The men love the emotional quality at the end of the play.
(c) Lemml is uncomfortable with the treatment of the Torah, but the other men find it exhilarating.
(d) All of the men are horrified by the desecration of the Torah.

3. In 1908, Berlin: Opening Night, The Last Moments of the Play, Yekel speaks what lines?
(a) Lines in Yiddish.
(b) The last lines of the play, as heard previously in Mr. Peretz’s salon.
(c) Lines of love towards his wife and daughter.
(d) Lines the audience has not heard before.

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

5. For whom does Sholem want to write?
(a) For everyone.
(b) The poor.
(c) The Jewish youth.
(d) The Jewish people.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does Esther treat the newly-cast Virginia?

4. Who does the judge blame for the content of The God of Vengeance?

5. As Vogel wrote the play, what does she say she began to feel regarding the story?

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