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

2. The playwright adds a note that if the reader sees “/” that means what?
(a) The dialogue is meant to overlap.
(b) The character will speak in two languages.
(c) The dialogue is to be sung.
(d) The character may improvise.

3. Where does Sholem say he will take his stones?
(a) Outside the tent.
(b) To the gentiles.
(c) To another tent.
(d) Back home.

4. When was Indecent's first world premieres?
(a) October 2, 2015 and November 13, 2015.
(b) October 2, 2010 and November 13, 2010.
(c) October 2, 2012 and November 13, 2012.
(d) October 2, 2013 and November 13, 2013.

5. How does Lemml react to the love scene the men are reading?
(a) He becomes a more enthusiastic reader.
(b) He turns bright red and begins to stutter.
(c) He leaves the room.
(d) He becomes quieter and more reserved.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Indecent's Broadway premiere?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Peretz tell Sholem will happen to him when the public gets ahold of this play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the playwright early on show why the play is titled Indecent?

7. How does this section end?

8. Did Vogel end up including the trial in the play? Why or why not?

9. How does the director stage the opening scene to show that the troupe is dead?

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

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