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

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

3. How long did it take the women to create a rough draft of Indecent?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 months.

4. Who does Sholem address at the end of this section?
(a) Nahkmen.
(b) Peretz.
(c) Madje.
(d) Lemml.

5. When did the obscenity trial take place?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing that Lemml does?

2. To whom is Lemml related?

3. How many years later was Indecent complete?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where and when did Indecent premiere?

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

6. How does this section end?

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

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

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

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

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