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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. What do Madje and Sholem decide it is best for him to do?
(a) Stay at home and for the two of them to attend opening night of his play.
(b) Speak to a therapist.
(c) Vacation up in the Catskills.
(d) Stay at home in bed.

2. How does Schildkraut react to Esther's treatment of Virginia?
(a) He chastises her.
(b) He thanks her.
(c) He teases her.
(d) He shouts at her.

3. Lemml has been told he needs to change his name to something more American. To what does he change it?
(a) Lennon.
(b) Lewis.
(c) Lenny.
(d) Lou.

4. In Ashes to Ashes: The Troupe Returns to Dust, the stage directions say that what plays on a record player?
(a) The Wizard of Oz.
(b) Damn Yankees.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Babes in Toyland.

5. Vogel had read The God of Vengeance while a student at what university?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Brown.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peretz tell Sholem will happen to him when the public gets ahold of this play?

2. What does Dorothee NOT ask Virginia regarding what will shock her parents more?

3. From where does the dead troupe watch, as Sholem remembers the end of the play?

4. In Opening Night at the Provincetown Playhouse: In the Wings how does Lemml respond to Virginia's first performance?

5. In 1922, New York City: Rehearsal for the English Transfer, what is taking place between Dorothee and Reina?

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