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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Matthew Shepard born?
(a) 1991
(b) 1971
(c) 1982
(d) 1976

2. In what year did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) 1998
(b) 2004
(c) 2009
(d) 2000

3. In “Moment: Vigils” of Act 2, the narrator states that how many people attended a vigil in Los Angeles for Matthew Shepard?
(a) 3,700
(b) 5,000
(c) 8,500
(d) 2,200

4. Who claims in Act 1, “But Wyoming, unless you’re a professional, well, the bulk of the people are working minimum-wage jobs”?
(a) Romaine Patterson
(b) Reverend Fred Phelps
(c) Lucy Thompson
(d) Alison Mears

5. Doc O’Connor claims that the trains that go by where he lives pass every how many minutes in Act 1?
(a) 35
(b) 22
(c) 58
(d) 13

Short Answer Questions

1. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?

2. The Wyoming governor in Act 2 states, “I would like to urge the people of Wyoming against overreacting in a way that gives one group” what?

3. What is repeated by several of the play’s characters as being the unsaid motto of the people of Laramie?

4. How many weeks after the murder of Matthew Shepard did the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project travel to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?

5. Who was the girlfriend of Aaron McKinney at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder?

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