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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the end, why did Vogel not use the obscenity trial itself?
(a) She had plans to create a second play focusing on the trial.
(b) It was too emotional for Vogel to add into the play.
(c) It was too long and boring.
(d) It did not fit, and she could not make it fit.

2. What does Peretz advise Sholem to do with his manuscript at the end of this section?
(a) Print more copies of it.
(b) Rewrite the ending.
(c) To burn it.
(d) Make some changes in the dialogue.

3. The God of Vengeance changed Vogel’s attitude and assumptions regarding what?
(a) Empathy and gender roles.
(b) Young married men.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) The Holocaust.

4. 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.

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

6. Why were readings and workshops able to begin for Indecent?
(a) Thanks to government grants.
(b) Thanks to Vogel's writing team's fund.
(c) Thanks to multiple non-profit organizations.
(d) Thanks to Taichman's financial contributions.

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

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

9. What does Peretz tell Sholem will happen to him when the public gets ahold of this play?
(a) He will be torn limb from limb.
(b) He will be thrown into jail.
(c) He will be exhaulted.
(d) He will be rich and famous.

10. Peretz says that if Sholem must throw stones, he should throw them where?
(a) At the gentiles.
(b) In his own yard.
(c) At his own home.
(d) Outside the tent.

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

12. When was Indecent's New York premiere?
(a) April 27, 2011.
(b) April 27, 2016.
(c) April 27, 2018.
(d) April 27, 2012.

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

14. In what languages do the actors speak at the beginning of the play?
(a) French and German.
(b) Yiddish and English.
(c) Yiddish and German.
(d) Spanish and Chinese.

15. 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 who which characters are poor and which are wealthy.
(c) To let the audience know more about the characters without changing languages.
(d) To show where the various characters are from in the U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe the set.

2. How did Vogel finish up her days?

3. How does Sholem's play end?

4. Why does Sholem have Peretz read the part of Yekel?

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

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