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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?
(a) Realism and naturalism
(b) Manners and politeness
(c) Religion and politics
(d) Drama and exaggeration

2. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that Wyoming is one of the largest states in the country and the least what?
(a) Educated
(b) Populated
(c) Wealthy
(d) Social

3. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?
(a) Matthew, Tell me about Heaven: A Firsthand Description of the Afterlife
(b) Laramie Holds the Range
(c) The Man from Laramie
(d) The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

4. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?
(a) Engineering
(b) English literature
(c) Mathematics
(d) Political science

5. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the first?
(a) To explore theatrical language and form
(b) To explain current events
(c) To examine the subject matter at hand
(d) To expose political and religious viewpoints

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Andy Paris interview in Act 1?

2. What sect leader was killed in the Waco siege?

3. Whose following quote is used in the introduction: “After all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free”?

4. What Laramie resident claims to have moved to Laramie from rural Texas in Act 1?

5. In what year was Matthew Shepard born?

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