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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1908, Berlin: A Cabaret - 1923: A Doctor, A Diagnosis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peretz think this play will do, regarding anti-Semitism?
(a) It will end anti-Semitism.
(b) It might encourage anti-Semitism.
(c) It will slow the spread of anti-Semitism.
(d) It will pour petrol on the flames of anti-Semitism.

2. What is Madje's first response to Sholem's play?
(a) Chas v'shalom.
(b) What is this trash?
(c) Wow.
(d) Oh.

3. In The Curtain Falls, how does Virginia change the blocking?
(a) She pulls away from Dorothee's embrace and nuzzles her neck.
(b) She becomes so passionate, Dorothee pulls away.
(c) She skips the love scene.
(d) She gives Dorothee a quick peck and hurries off the stage.

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

5. 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 playing a Jewish girl.
(c) She is in a Jewish company.
(d) She is a girl in love with a prostitute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sholem say he has always wanted to see?

2. As the troupe sings a song that ends with a kickline, they begin dressed as what?

3. Why does Asch feel grateful to Lemml?

4. How does Lemml react to the love scene the men are reading?

5. What is the first thing that Lemml does?

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