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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. Vogel says she wrote the scenes, and Taichman made them come alive. Which scenes does she specifically mention?
(a) The opening scene with the Asch's and the final scene as they prepare to leave.
(b) The cast rising from the ashes at the beginning and the rain scene at the end.
(c) The various performances of The God of Vengeance.
(d) The arrival of Lemml in America and his return to Poland.

2. What does Peretz tell Sholem will happen to him when the public gets ahold of this play?
(a) He will be exhaulted.
(b) He will be rich and famous.
(c) He will be torn limb from limb.
(d) He will be thrown into jail.

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

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

5. When Mrs. Peretz enters, for what is the excitement in the house not good?
(a) Mr. Peretz's digestion.
(b) The Jewish people.
(c) The men in the salon.
(d) Mr. Peretz's heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two locations in which Indecent had its world premiere?

2. To whom is Lemml related?

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

4. What does Peretz advise Sholem to do with his manuscript at the end of this section?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. Why might it be important that Nakhmen state that his nephew, Lemml, has never seen a play?

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

8. How does this section end?

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

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

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