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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Officer Bailie Enters the Wings, the show is coming to an end, and Officer Bailie asks Asch to have the cast do what?
(a) Meet him backstage right away.
(b) Meet him at the police station after the show ends.
(c) Meet him backstage after the show ends.
(d) Go straight home as soon as the show ends.

2. 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?
(a) Muslim extremists.
(b) So-called Christians.
(c) The American government.
(d) The Nazis.

3. 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 a girl in love with a prostitute.
(d) She is playing a Jewish girl.

4. How does Staten Island: Sholem and Madje’s Home begin?
(a) With Sholem reading out loud his newest play.
(b) With Sholem slouching over his typewriter pretending to be hard at work.
(c) With Lemml knocking on the Asch’s door.
(d) With Madje arguing with Sholem.

5. 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.

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. In Sholem Asch Shows Lemml America, what does Asch show Lemml?

3. What is the name of the bar in which Lemml spends time with a drunk Eugene O’Neill?

4. In 1923: A Doctor, A Diagnosis, why does Madje have Sholem seen by a doctor?

5. Why is Sholem agitated and troubled?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Sholem Asch Shows Lemml America, what does the troupe do, as an ensemble?

2. What upsets Reina the most about being fired?

3. How does Freida respond when Lemml calls Asch a genius? What is Lemml's response to her?

4. How do both Madje and Sholem feel about his trip abroad to learn more about the pogroms?

5. What is the reason Eugene O'Neill gives for why the play is such a problem for the authorities?

6. What takes place in Cast and Producer Arrested for Obscenity?

7. What is Rabbi Silverman's beliefs regarding the underground Jewish prostitution ring?

8. Why does Schildkraut fire Reina?

9. What does Madje ask Sholem in this section about why the authorities might stop the show?

10. What is the response to Virginia's acting?

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