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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. What is the line that Madje says that is later used in the play and is read later on in this section in the salon reading?
(a) Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome.
(b) Oy vey!
(c) The is such mishegas.
(d) Teach me. Take me. I want to taste you.

2. About what does Peretz think Sholem should write?
(a) What he loves.
(b) What the people are comfortable with.
(c) What honors the Jewish people.
(d) What he knows.

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

4. What does Peretz think this play will do, regarding anti-Semitism?
(a) It might encourage anti-Semitism.
(b) It will pour petrol on the flames of anti-Semitism.
(c) It will end anti-Semitism.
(d) It will slow the spread of anti-Semitism.

5. What type of plays do the men at the salon want, regarding the Jewish people?
(a) Plays that tell Jewish tall tales.
(b) Plays that put fear into the hearts of gentiles.
(c) Plays that show the innocence of the Jewish people.
(d) Plays that represent the Jewish people as valiant and heroic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Madje's first response to Sholem's play?

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

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

4. What does Peretz advise Sholem to do with his manuscript at the end of this section?

5. When was Indecent's New York premiere?

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