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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. As Vogel wrote the play, what does she say she began to feel regarding the story?
(a) She began to worry if this was the right story to write.
(b) She fell in love with this world until her obsession matched her director’s.
(c) She began to feel hatred towards those who hurt the people in this story.
(d) She soon grew tired of the story and its characters.

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

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

4. What did Vogel do when other projects came along, whiles she was working on Indecent?
(a) She agreed to assist with other projects but not do them solely on her own.
(b) She would switch back and forth between other projects and Indecent.
(c) She pause Indecent to work on other projects.
(d) She pushed them off.

5. Why does Nakhmen groan as they prepare to read Sholem's play?
(a) It starts off with a matchmaker named Yente.
(b) It begins by talking about Jewish traditions.
(c) It takes place in a brothel, like so many other plays.
(d) It begins with an old Jewish tale.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Indecent take place?

4. When was Indecent's Broadway premiere?

5. What language does Peretz say is their mother tongue?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the language used in the play.

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

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

4. What is done with the Torah scroll near the end of the reading of Sholem's play?

5. Where does Indecent take place?

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

7. How does this section end?

8. Where and when did Indecent premiere?

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

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

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