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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Indecent had its Broadway debut at what theatre?
(a) The Richard Rodgers Theatre.
(b) The Lyceum Theatre.
(c) The Public Theatre.
(d) The Cort Theatre.

4. What language does Peretz say is their mother tongue?
(a) Russian.
(b) German.
(c) Polish.
(d) Yiddish.

5. Where did Vogel and Taichmann first begin to work on Indecent?
(a) In a shared cabin.
(b) In a local coffee shop.
(c) In Taichman's office.
(d) In Vogel's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. The playwright adds a note that if the reader sees “/” that means what?

2. How did Vogel first hear about Taichman?

3. In the end, why did Vogel not use the obscenity trial itself?

4. How does Lemml react to the love scene the men are reading?

5. What love scene is shocking to the men?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Madje’s line, “Teach me. Take me. I want to taste you” significant?

2. At the end of the reading of Sholem’s play, how do the responses of the men and Lemml differ?

3. What do most of the men believe is the role of Jewish theater?

4. What did Vogel and Taichman do that led to a first draft in two weeks?

5. How do Madje and Sholem respond differently to the future of Sholem’s play in the beginning of the play?

6. Why had Rebecca Taichman reached out to Paula Vogel?

7. Where does Indecent take place?

8. Sholem compares himself to one of the prostitutes in his play. When and why does he do this?

9. What does Vogel say she did when other projects came along?

10. What important resources beyond the original play, trial information, and Taichman’s thesis was used to inspire Vogel?

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