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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 co-commissioned Indecent?
(a) Stratford Theater Festival and Goodman Theatre.
(b) American Players Theater and Waterville Playshop.
(c) Ogunquit Playhouse and American Repertory Theater.
(d) Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre.
2. The God of Vengeance changed Vogel’s attitude and assumptions regarding what?
(a) Empathy and gender roles.
(b) The Holocaust.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Young married men.
3. What is Sholem's response when he asks the men what a minyan is?
(a) It is ten Jews who pray together.
(b) It is ten Jews in a circle accusing each other of anti-Semitism.
(c) It is no longer necessary.
(d) It is a yellow creature that helps Gru.
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 cast rising from the ashes at the beginning and the rain scene at the end.
(c) The opening scene with the Asch's and the final scene as they prepare to leave.
(d) The various performances of The God of Vengeance.
5. Where does Indecent take place?
(a) A few cities in Europe and America in the 20th century.
(b) Warsaw in 1906, Bridgeport, Connecticut in the 1950s and everywhere in between.
(c) Europe in 1906 and the 1920s and America in the 1950s.
(d) In an attic in Poland.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why were readings and workshops able to begin for Indecent?
2. Why does the playwright have some characters speak in perfect English and others with dialects?
3. What is the first thing that Lemml does?
4. What kind of music begins to play at the beginning of Indecent?
5. Who does Sholem address at the end of this section?
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