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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the real names of Reina and Dorothee?
(a) Risa and Dovi.
(b) Rivka and Doba.
(c) Ruth and Deine.
(d) Rochel and Devora.

2. How does Schildkraut react to Esther's treatment of Virginia?
(a) He thanks her.
(b) He chastises her.
(c) He shouts at her.
(d) He teases her.

3. How does O’Neill feel towards Asch?
(a) He is frustrated with him.
(b) He is angry with him.
(c) He admires him.
(d) He is concerned about him.

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

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

6. 1911, St. Petersburg is a repeat of the last few lines of the play, minus what?
(a) The lines about knowing how to make money.
(b) The line about sending Rifkele down into the whorehouse.
(c) The lines about the Torah.
(d) The lines about dragging Rifkele back by her hair.

7. What does Asch admit to the cast at their first meeting?
(a) He hates writing plays.
(b) This is his first play in German.
(c) This is his last play.
(d) This is his first play.

8. Why does Asch feel grateful to Lemml?
(a) He paid for severs of the cast members’ visas.
(b) He was the first to support him and his play;
(c) He had the script translated into English.
(d) He helped him bring the troupe to America.

9. 1923, On Broadway lists what?
(a) The locations The cast had traveled in which to perform The God of Vengeance.
(b) All of the current shows on Broadway.
(c) All the cast members of The God of Vengeance.
(d) All of the current shows on Broadway except The God of Vengeance.

10. Who posted bail for much of the cast?
(a) Virginia’s father.
(b) Sholem Asch.
(c) Lemml.
(d) Harry Weinberger.

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

12. Who does Silverman blame for the Jewish underground prostitution ring?
(a) The women who sell themselves.
(b) World governments.
(c) The men who earn a living off the sweat of the women who work for them.
(d) The community who supports these acts.

13. When Freida says she is not sure about how to play a Jew, and Elsa says she is Jewish. What does Freida say?
(a) It is too bad Elsa is Jewish.
(b) She wishes she were actually Jewish.
(c) Elsa should convert to Christianity and hide her identity.
(d) They are German first and foremost.

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

15. Why is Sholem agitated and troubled?
(a) He is concerned for the safety of his daughter in London.
(b) He has been drinking too much coffee.
(c) His trip to Europe to learn more about the pogroms.
(d) He is worried about his play.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Madje think Sholem should tell about what is going on in his life?

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

3. This section (1908, Berlin: A Cabaret) begins with the lights coming up on a cabaret in Berlin, as the troupe dances how?

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

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

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