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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 Sholem's response when he asks the men what a minyan is?
(a) It is ten Jews who pray together.
(b) It is no longer necessary.
(c) It is a yellow creature that helps Gru.
(d) It is ten Jews in a circle accusing each other of anti-Semitism.

2. How is the troupe first noticed by the audience?
(a) The troupe stand up, covered in dust.
(b) The troupe performs a kickline.
(c) The troupe introduces themselves.
(d) The troupe sings in Yiddish from the wings.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Lemml related?

2. What is Madje's first response to Sholem's play?

3. Who does Sholem address at the end of this section?

4. Who co-commissioned Indecent?

5. Why does Nakhmen groan as they prepare to read Sholem's play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the language used in the play.

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

9. Where and when did Indecent premiere?

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

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