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

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

3. What does Vogel say about the collaboration with Taichman?
(a) It was disappointing.
(b) It was the collaboration of a lifetime.
(c) It had its highs and lows.
(d) It was very challenging.

4. To whom does Vogel NOT dedicate Indecent?
(a) All of our immigrant ancestors.
(b) Rebecca Taichman’s immigrant ancestors.
(c) Vogel's immigrant ancestors.
(d) Sholem Asch and his descendants.

5. When was Indecent's Broadway premiere?
(a) April 18, 2011.
(b) April 18, 2013.
(c) April 18, 2019.
(d) April 18, 2017.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Vogel and Taichmann first begin to work on Indecent?

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

4. Vogel had read The God of Vengeance while a student at what university?

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

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