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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 explain current events
(b) To explore theatrical language and form
(c) To examine the subject matter at hand
(d) To expose political and religious viewpoints

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?
(a) Religious authority
(b) Absolute power
(c) Enforcement abilities
(d) Special rights over others

3. What did the sign on the University Inn say when the Tectonic Theater Project members entered Laramie, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?
(a) God bless everyone
(b) Peace be with you
(c) Hate is not a Laramie value
(d) Laramie mourns

4. What is the title of Moisés Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s later one-acts?
(a) In the Winter of Cities
(b) The Glass Menagerie
(c) A Streetcar Named Desire
(d) Battle of Angels

5. In “Moment: Gay Panic” of Act 3, who says, “When that defense team argued that McKinney did what he did because Matthew made a pass at him … I just wanted to vomit, because that’s like saying that it’s okay.”?
(a) Reggie Fluty
(b) Matt Galloway
(c) Greg Pierotti
(d) Zackie Salmon

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was The Laramie Project first performed in Laramie, Wyoming, according to the author of the Introduction?

2. Romaine Patterson claims in “Moment: Epilogue” of Act 3 that in the past year she has changed her major and will be studying what?

3. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

4. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?

5. In “Moment: The Essential Facts” in Act 2, the Newspaperperson states that the focus is on what courthouse?

(see the answer key)

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