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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface, Production History, Characters, Place, Set, Titles, Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what languages are scene titles and translations projected throughout Indecent?
(a) Spanish and Chinese.
(b) English and French.
(c) German and Yiddish.
(d) English and Yiddish.

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

3. How did Vogel finish up her days?
(a) Listening to Wiegela and weeping.
(b) Watching films on the Holocaust.
(c) Listening to recordings of Isaac Perlman.
(d) Practicing yoga and deep breathing.

4. Vogel says she wrote the scenes, and Taichman made them come alive. Which scenes does she specifically mention?
(a) The arrival of Lemml in America and his return to Poland.
(b) The opening scene with the Asch's and the final scene as they prepare to leave.
(c) The various performances of The God of Vengeance.
(d) The cast rising from the ashes at the beginning and the rain scene at the end.

5. The playwright adds a note that if the reader sees “/” that means what?
(a) The dialogue is to be sung.
(b) The character may improvise.
(c) The dialogue is meant to overlap.
(d) The character will speak in two languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The God of Vengeance written?

2. The God of Vengeance changed Vogel’s attitude and assumptions regarding what?

3. What did Vogel do when other projects came along, whiles she was working on Indecent?

4. What was NOT included in the box of materials that Taichman unearthed at the start of the collaboration with Vogel?

5. In the end, why did Vogel not use the obscenity trial itself?

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