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

2. What is the name of the bar in which Lemml spends time with a drunk Eugene O’Neill?
(a) The Carriage House.
(b) The Hell Hole.
(c) The West Village Retreat.
(d) The Stonewall Inn.

3. For how long has Lemml known they were going to fire Reina?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 2 minutes.
(d) 2 weeks.

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

5. 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) Manke.
(d) Ruth.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who posted bail for much of the cast?

3. Who in The God of Vengeance finds the cast guilty of presenting an indecent, obscene, and immoral play, exhibition, and drama?

4. How does Madje feel about her safety in America?

5. What does Madje wish Sholem had never done?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the court's verdict?

3. What is the doctor's recommendation to Sholem?

4. What takes place in the play within the play in Beginning of Act Three?

5. Why is Sholem seen by a doctor?

6. What is Rabbi Silverman's response regarding plays like The God of Vengeance?

7. In 1923: Opening Night on Broadway, Intermission, why are the Aschs shocked?

8. What does Asch share with the cast regarding the creation of this play at the first full cast meeting?

9. What upsets Reina the most about being fired?

10. What are Freida's and Elsa's responses regarding being Jewish?

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