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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. 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?
(a) Teach me. Take me. I want to taste you.
(b) Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome.
(c) Oy vey!
(d) The is such mishegas.

2. 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 put fear into the hearts of gentiles.
(c) Plays that tell Jewish tall tales.
(d) Plays that show the innocence of the Jewish people.

3. To whom is Lemml related?
(a) He is Nakhmen's nephew.
(b) He is Sholem's brother.
(c) He is Madje's nephew.
(d) He is Mr. Peretz's son.

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

5. What love scene is shocking to the men?
(a) The one between Rifkele and Manke.
(b) The one between Yekel and Sarah.
(c) The one between Sholem and Madje.
(d) The one between Yekel and Manke.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Indecent's Broadway premiere?

2. What do the men think of the ending of the play?

3. Vogel says she wrote the scenes, and Taichman made them come alive. Which scenes does she specifically mention?

4. What does Vogel distinctly remember about The God of Vengeance?

5. What young woman is Yekel concerned about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do the men in the salon react to Rifkele and Manke’s embrace? Why?

4. Why are many of the men upset and horrified by what Yekel does with the Torah scroll?

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

6. How does this section end?

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

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

9. When and why was The God of Vengeance put on trial?

10. What was Paula Vogel‘s reaction when she first read The God of Vengeance while at Cornell University?

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