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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1922, New York City: Rehearsal for the English Transfer, what is taking place between Dorothee and Reina?
(a) They are having lunch.
(b) They are singing.
(c) They are in deep discussion.
(d) They are fighting.

2. This section (1908, Berlin: A Cabaret) begins with the lights coming up on a cabaret in Berlin, as the troupe dances how?
(a) Quickly.
(b) Erotically.
(c) Gracefully.
(d) Nervously.

3. 1908, Berlin: The Deutches Theatre Elsa Heimes and Freida Niemann begins with Freida and Elsa, speaking in German, about the play they will both be in and will be what?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) Friends.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Sisters.

4. What is Sholem's response to Madje when she says they need to go to court?
(a) He says she should go without him.
(b) He says he cannot go.
(c) He says he is not feeling well.
(d) He says he can be ready in ten minutes.

5. Why has the rain scene been removed from the Broadway script?
(a) The actresses decided they were not comfortable with the scene.
(b) It has been decided that the uptown crowd can handle a brothel but not lesbian love.
(c) The cost of having it rain on stage was too high.
(d) It was illegal to have homosexuality on the stage.

6. Silverman denounces this play and is happy that what has happened?
(a) The playwright has been arrested.
(b) The script has been changed.
(c) The cast has been sent back to Europe.
(d) The cast has been arrested.

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

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

9. 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?
(a) They are not surprised.
(b) They are nervous.
(c) They are appalled.
(d) They are relieved.

10. In the love scene between Manke and Rifkele, what does Dorothee do, regarding the newly-cast Virginia?
(a) She refuses to do the love scene with Virginia.
(b) She checks in with Virginia to make sure she is comfortable with the embrace.
(c) She forces her to do the love scene.
(d) She tells her to practice the love scene with someone else first.

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

12. In 1921, New York City: The Bowery Theatre, the lines that were spoken at previous theatres is now spoken in what language?
(a) German.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) English.
(d) Creole.

13. Why does Sholem want to change the way gentiles see Jews?
(a) He is tired of the mistreatment he has received.
(b) He fears the pogroms of Europe are coming to America.
(c) He wishes he were a gentile.
(d) He has many gentile friends.

14. 1923, On Broadway lists what?
(a) All the cast members of The God of Vengeance.
(b) All of the current shows on Broadway.
(c) All of the current shows on Broadway except The God of Vengeance.
(d) The locations The cast had traveled in which to perform The God of Vengeance.

15. Who in The God of Vengeance finds the cast guilty of presenting an indecent, obscene, and immoral play, exhibition, and drama?
(a) The People of the State of New York.
(b) The People of the United States of America.
(c) The People of the Borough of Manhattan.
(d) The People of the State of New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. O’Neill believes that the court will claim that the problem with the show is what?

3. What does the doctor NOT recommend for Sholem?

4. In Rabbi Silverman – A Sermon, Temple Emanu-El, Silverman is appalled at Asch’s play and says he expects to be abused by whom but not by a fellow Jew?

5. For how long has Lemml known they were going to fire Reina?

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