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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. What happens between Dorothee and Reina, after Dorothee is released from jail?
(a) They reunite, and Dorothee goes home with Reina.
(b) They decide to meet for dinner that evening to reevaluate the relationship.
(c) They begin to argue and end their relationship.
(d) Reina rejoins the cast.

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

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

4. 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 lines of the end of the play that have been performed previously, but this time they are performed in Yiddish.
(c) The lines of the end of the play that have been performed previously.
(d) The first lines of the play.

5. After a Night in Jail begins with who waiting outside the jail for the cast to be bailed out?
(a) Sholem and Madje.
(b) Harry and Lemml.
(c) Reina and Lemml.
(d) Reina and Virginia’s father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sholem want to change the way gentiles see Jews?

2. Why is Sholem agitated and troubled?

3. When Virginia says that she cannot breathe when she looks at Dorothee, how does Lemml respond?

4. How does O’Neill feel about Asch giving up the theatre?

5. How does this 1923, On Broadway begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Virginia say that shocks Dorothee?

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

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

4. What is the court's verdict?

5. What is Rabbi Silverman's response to the cast being arrested?

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

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

8. Why is the rain scene cut from the Broadway script?

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

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

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