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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. 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 character will speak in two languages.
(d) The dialogue is meant to overlap.

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

3. Describe the set.
(a) Simple with all of the props coming out of suitcases.
(b) Simple but with some set pieces being flown in.
(c) Lavish and beautiful.
(d) Realistic.

4. What was NOT included in the box of materials that Taichman unearthed at the start of the collaboration with Vogel?
(a) Letters from the producer Harry Weinberger.
(b) The original copy of The God of Vengeance.
(c) The entire trial transcript.
(d) Her thesis.

5. Vogel had read The God of Vengeance while a student at what university?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Brown.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The God of Vengeance written?

2. Indecent had its New York premiere where?

3. How long did it take the women to create a rough draft of Indecent?

4. To whom does Vogel NOT dedicate Indecent?

5. Who wrote the play, The God of Vengeance?

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