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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Madje wish Sholem had never done?
(a) Written The God of Vengeance.
(b) Changed his script to appease his producer.
(c) Gone to Vilna and learned about the pogroms.
(d) Brought them to America.

2. How does this 1923, On Broadway begin?
(a) A scene completely in Yiddish.
(b) With an instrumental reprise of “Ain’t We Got Fun.”
(c) A tap dance.
(d) The rain scene.

3. Why is Eugene O’Neill not able to testify for the cast?
(a) He is feeling under the weather.
(b) He decided he was too nervous to speak up in court.
(c) The court dismissed all the defense witnesses.
(d) He cannot testify for the changes that were made and The God of Vengeance.

4. 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 appalled.
(b) They are relieved.
(c) They are not surprised.
(d) They are nervous.

5. Who does the judge blame for the content of The God of Vengeance?
(a) The poor.
(b) The East.
(c) The Jews.
(d) Those from downtown.

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

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

8. 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 is not feeling well.
(c) He says he can be ready in ten minutes.
(d) He says he cannot go.

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

10. What does Rabbi Silverman say in Cast and Producer Arrested for Obscenity?
(a) He was wondering to himself what he should say to his congregation regarding The God of Vengeance.
(b) He is telling the audience that he worries for the cast of The God of Vengeance.
(c) He is telling the audience that anytime someone is arrested, he prays they are not Jewish.
(d) He is speaking to Sholem Asch about his play.

11. Beginning of Act Three starts onstage with Sarah speaking about how what person is opening her own whorehouse with Rifkele as the prostitute?
(a) Elsa.
(b) Freida.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Manke.

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

13. The Last Moments of the Play is a repeat of what?
(a) The lines of the play that has been performed previously minus the sending of Rivkele to the brothel.
(b) The first lines of the play.
(c) The lines of the end of the play that have been performed previously.
(d) The lines of the end of the play that have been performed previously, but this time they are performed in Yiddish.

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

15. How much acting training does Virginia have?
(a) Some.
(b) A college degree in theatre performance.
(c) Very little in high school.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1921, New York City: The Bowery Theatre, the lines that were spoken at previous theatres is now spoken in what language?

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

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?

4. What do Madje and Sholem decide it is best for him to do?

5. In Officer Bailie Enters the Wings, the show is coming to an end, and Officer Bailie asks Asch to have the cast do what?

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