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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?
(a) Theater of the Absurd
(b) Naturalism
(c) Epic theater
(d) Dadaism

2. Who were the Tectonic Theater Project’s associate writers who led the group in Laramie, according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Leigh Fondakowski and Jon Peacock
(b) Stephen Belber and Greg Pierotti
(c) Stephen Belber and Jim Geringer
(d) Greg Pierotti and Leigh Fondakowski

3. What is the name of the sect that had a standoff with the FBI and AFT in Waco, Texas?
(a) The Lord’s Children
(b) Al Qaeda
(c) The Divinity Project
(d) The Branch Davidians

4. 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”?
(a) Henry David Thoreau’s
(b) Arthur Miller’s
(c) Walt Whitman’s
(d) John Keats’s

5. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?
(a) October 22, 2009
(b) December 29, 2007
(c) May 3, 2004
(d) June 16, 2001

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Andy Paris interview in Act 1?

2. What is Matthew Shepard’s father’s name?

3. Where was James Byrd, Jr. murdered?

4. Who did the waitress Debbie introduce herself to at a local inn in Act 1?

5. In the Waco siege, a fire destroyed the compound when a second assault was launched, killing how many people?

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