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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1938, Staten Island: Sholem Asch in his Study - 1952, Bridgeport, Connecticut: Moving Day, Sholem and Madje Asch's House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what do the Asch’s try to convince Lemml?
(a) He will be safer in Europe.
(b) America is the best country in the world.
(c) Europe as he knew it is no more.
(d) The play cannot be performed anywhere outside the U.S.

2. What is Sholem's response when Nakhmen says he is representing the Jewish people as prostitutes and pimps?
(a) Yes, you are correct.
(b) Some of our people are prostitutes and pimps.
(c) These characters are not prostitutes and pimps.
(d) These characters are more than just prostitutes and pimps.

3. What does Dorothee NOT ask Virginia regarding what will shock her parents more?
(a) She is in a Jewish company.
(b) She is playing a Jewish girl.
(c) She is a girl in love with a prostitute.
(d) She has run away from home to act in her very first play.

4. How does Lemml feel about the letter Asch wrote?
(a) He hates it.
(b) He finds it humorous.
(c) He appreciates it.
(d) He is annoyed by it.

5. From where does the dead troupe watch, as Sholem remembers the end of the play?
(a) The aisles.
(b) From the wings.
(c) The catwalk.
(d) The house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor NOT recommend for Sholem?

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

3. When was Indecent's first world premieres?

4. What is the line that Madje says that is later used in the play and is read later on in this section in the salon reading?

5. In 1908, Berlin: Opening Night, The Last Moments of the Play, Yekel speaks what lines?

(see the answer key)

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