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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Indecent: The True Story of a Little Jewish Play: From Ashes They Rise - The Last Moments of the Play.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the play, The God of Vengeance?
(a) Madje Asch.
(b) Paual Vogel.
(c) Sholem Asch.
(d) Rebecca Taichman.

2. The God of Vengeance changed Vogel’s attitude and assumptions regarding what?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) The Holocaust.
(c) Empathy and gender roles.
(d) Young married men.

3. Nakhmen says this play is written by a Jew who hates who?
(a) The poor.
(b) Gentiles.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) Jews.

4. Indecent had its Broadway debut at what theatre?
(a) The Public Theatre.
(b) The Lyceum Theatre.
(c) The Richard Rodgers Theatre.
(d) The Cort Theatre.

5. What do the men think of the ending of the play?
(a) Lemmls finds this ending to be wonderful, while the other men are shocked at the desecration of the Torah.
(b) All of the men are horrified by the desecration of the Torah.
(c) Lemml is uncomfortable with the treatment of the Torah, but the other men find it exhilarating.
(d) The men love the emotional quality at the end of the play.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the playwright have some characters speak in perfect English and others with dialects?

2. In what languages do the actors speak at the beginning of the play?

3. What is Sholem's response when he asks the men what a minyan is?

4. Vogel says she wrote the scenes, and Taichman made them come alive. Which scenes does she specifically mention?

5. How is the troupe first noticed by the audience?

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