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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who co-commissioned Indecent?
(a) Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre.
(b) Ogunquit Playhouse and American Repertory Theater.
(c) Stratford Theater Festival and Goodman Theatre.
(d) American Players Theater and Waterville Playshop.

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

4. When does Paula Vogel receive a call from Rebecca Taichman?
(a) 2019.
(b) 2017.
(c) 2009.
(d) 1989.

5. Who does Sholem address at the end of this section?
(a) Madje.
(b) Nahkmen.
(c) Lemml.
(d) Peretz.

6. How does Indecent begin?
(a) There are bright search lights and loud music, with heavy boots being heard on steps.
(b) There is darkness and the sound of crying.
(c) The lights go up on the stage and soft music is being played, while a figure, covered in dust, stretches and pours sawdust out of his sleeves.
(d) There is a solo clarinet and a Lemml in a spotlight.

7. How is the troupe first noticed by the audience?
(a) The troupe sings in Yiddish from the wings.
(b) The troupe performs a kickline.
(c) The troupe stand up, covered in dust.
(d) The troupe introduces themselves.

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

9. How did Vogel finish up her days?
(a) Listening to recordings of Isaac Perlman.
(b) Practicing yoga and deep breathing.
(c) Watching films on the Holocaust.
(d) Listening to Wiegela and weeping.

10. What do the men think of the ending of the play?
(a) Lemmls finds this ending to be wonderful, while the other men are shocked at the desecration of the Torah.
(b) The men love the emotional quality at the end of the play.
(c) All of the men are horrified by the desecration of the Torah.
(d) Lemml is uncomfortable with the treatment of the Torah, but the other men find it exhilarating.

11. 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) In an attic in Poland.
(d) Europe in 1906 and the 1920s and America in the 1950s.

12. What is Madje's first response to Sholem's play?
(a) Oh.
(b) Wow.
(c) What is this trash?
(d) Chas v'shalom.

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

14. How did Vogel first hear about Taichman?
(a) She had received a call from her while she was in college regarding some research.
(b) She had interviewed her while she was in college.
(c) She had read an article about her in Time magazine.
(d) She had read about a young director who had staged the obscenity trials as her thesis.

15. For whom does Sholem want to write?
(a) For everyone.
(b) The Jewish youth.
(c) The Jewish people.
(d) The poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The God of Vengeance changed Vogel’s attitude and assumptions regarding what?

2. How is the troupe described prior to the list of characters?

3. What kind of music begins to play at the beginning of Indecent?

4. For every scene kept in Indecent, how many were thrown out?

5. What young woman is Yekel concerned about?

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