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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was The God of Vengeance written?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1906.
(d) 2009.
2. What kind of music begins to play at the beginning of Indecent?
(a) Big band music.
(b) Klezmer music.
(c) A waltz.
(d) A violin solo.
3. In what languages are scene titles and translations projected throughout Indecent?
(a) German and Yiddish.
(b) English and French.
(c) Spanish and Chinese.
(d) English and Yiddish.
4. Why does the playwright have some characters speak in perfect English and others with dialects?
(a) To represent the various dialects in the U.S.
(b) To show where the various characters are from in the U.S.
(c) To let the audience know more about the characters without changing languages.
(d) To show who which characters are poor and which are wealthy.
5. What love scene is shocking to the men?
(a) The one between Yekel and Manke.
(b) The one between Sholem and Madje.
(c) The one between Yekel and Sarah.
(d) The one between Rifkele and Manke.
6. What is Sholem's response when he asks the men what a minyan is?
(a) It is no longer necessary.
(b) It is a yellow creature that helps Gru.
(c) It is ten Jews who pray together.
(d) It is ten Jews in a circle accusing each other of anti-Semitism.
7. Who wrote the play, The God of Vengeance?
(a) Paual Vogel.
(b) Madje Asch.
(c) Sholem Asch.
(d) Rebecca Taichman.
8. What are the two locations in which Indecent had its world premiere?
(a) The Muny and Seattle Repertory Theatre.
(b) Hartford Stage and Indianapolis Repertory Theatre.
(c) Yale Repertory Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse.
(d) Arena Stage and Goodspeed Musicals.
9. How does Madje feel about the response Sholem will get from the men at the salon?
(a) She is nervous things will not go well.
(b) She is prepared to be angry with the men at the salon.
(c) She is confident they will love it.
(d) She is unsure what they will think.
10. To whom is Lemml related?
(a) He is Sholem's brother.
(b) He is Madje's nephew.
(c) He is Mr. Peretz's son.
(d) He is Nakhmen's nephew.
11. When does Paula Vogel receive a call from Rebecca Taichman?
(a) 1989.
(b) 2019.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2009.
12. What type of plays do the men at the salon want, regarding the Jewish people?
(a) Plays that represent the Jewish people as valiant and heroic.
(b) Plays that tell Jewish tall tales.
(c) Plays that put fear into the hearts of gentiles.
(d) Plays that show the innocence of the Jewish people.
13. As Vogel wrote the play, what does she say she began to feel regarding the story?
(a) She began to worry if this was the right story to write.
(b) She soon grew tired of the story and its characters.
(c) She fell in love with this world until her obsession matched her director’s.
(d) She began to feel hatred towards those who hurt the people in this story.
14. What did Vogel do when other projects came along, whiles she was working on Indecent?
(a) She pushed them off.
(b) She agreed to assist with other projects but not do them solely on her own.
(c) She pause Indecent to work on other projects.
(d) She would switch back and forth between other projects and Indecent.
15. To whom does Vogel NOT dedicate Indecent?
(a) Sholem Asch and his descendants.
(b) All of our immigrant ancestors.
(c) Rebecca Taichman’s immigrant ancestors.
(d) Vogel's immigrant ancestors.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Vogel finish up her days?
2. How does Sholem feel every time he meets with Mr. Peretz?
3. Nakhmen says this play is written by a Jew who hates who?
4. What does Vogel say about the collaboration with Taichman?
5. 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?
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