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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1908, Berlin: A Cabaret - 1923: A Doctor, A Diagnosis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sholem have Peretz read the part of Yekel?
(a) Yekel is strong and powerful, just like Peretz.
(b) Yekel is the only male character.
(c) Yekel is the protagonist and has the most lines.
(d) Yekel is the first character to speak.

2. Why were readings and workshops able to begin for Indecent?
(a) Thanks to multiple non-profit organizations.
(b) Thanks to government grants.
(c) Thanks to Taichman's financial contributions.
(d) Thanks to Vogel's writing team's fund.

3. Where does Indecent take place?
(a) Warsaw in 1906, Bridgeport, Connecticut in the 1950s and everywhere in between.
(b) A few cities in Europe and America in the 20th century.
(c) Europe in 1906 and the 1920s and America in the 1950s.
(d) In an attic in Poland.

4. What does Dorothee NOT ask Virginia regarding what will shock her parents more?
(a) She is a girl in love with a prostitute.
(b) She is playing a Jewish girl.
(c) She has run away from home to act in her very first play.
(d) She is in a Jewish company.

5. In 1908, Berlin: Opening Night, The Last Moments of the Play, Yekel speaks what lines?
(a) Lines of love towards his wife and daughter.
(b) The last lines of the play, as heard previously in Mr. Peretz’s salon.
(c) Lines the audience has not heard before.
(d) Lines in Yiddish.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Indecent's first world premieres?

2. As Vogel wrote the play, what does she say she began to feel regarding the story?

3. In Full Company Meeting: The Provincetown Playhouse, how does the cast respond when they learn that the Broadway production will not include the romantic rain scene at the end of the play?

4. In 1921, New York City: The Bowery Theatre, the lines that were spoken at previous theatres is now spoken in what language?

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

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