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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 fell in love with this world until her obsession matched her director’s.
(b) She began to worry if this was the right story to write.
(c) She soon grew tired of the story and its characters.
(d) She began to feel hatred towards those who hurt the people in this story.

2. When does Paula Vogel receive a call from Rebecca Taichman?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2017.
(c) 1989.
(d) 2019.

3. When was Indecent's Broadway premiere?
(a) April 18, 2013.
(b) April 18, 2019.
(c) April 18, 2011.
(d) April 18, 2017.

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

5. What is Sholem's response when Nakhmen says he is representing the Jewish people as prostitutes and pimps?
(a) Some of our people are prostitutes and pimps.
(b) Yes, you are correct.
(c) These characters are more than just prostitutes and pimps.
(d) These characters are not prostitutes and pimps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT included in the box of materials that Taichman unearthed at the start of the collaboration with Vogel?

2. How does Sholem's play end?

3. Where does Sholem say he will take his stones?

4. How is the troupe described prior to the list of characters?

5. When was Indecent's New York premiere?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Vogel thank for bringing her life’s work to life?

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

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

5. Where does Indecent take place?

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

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

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

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

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

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