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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s younger brother?
(a) William Shepard
(b) Logan Shepard
(c) Oscar Shepard
(d) Caleb Shepard

2. According to Catherine Connolly in Act 2, the arraignment lasted how long?
(a) 5 minutes
(b) 6 hours
(c) 2 hours
(d) 20 minutes

3. Who wrote Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde?
(a) Frank Galati
(b) Moisés Kaufman
(c) Terrence McNally
(d) Neil Simon

4. The limousine driver in Act 1 claims, “They say that the Wyoming” what will “drive a man insane”?
(a) Snow
(b) Wind
(c) Trout
(d) Owls

5. According to the Narrator in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” in Act 2, both of the murder suspects pled how to the charges against them?
(a) Not guilty by reason of insanity
(b) The Fifth Amendment
(c) Guilty
(d) Not guilty

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?

3. The author of the Introduction to The Laramie Project writes: “There are moments in history when a particular event brings the various ideologies and beliefs prevailing in a culture into sharp focus. At these junctures event becomes a” what, of sorts?

4. Who does Andy Paris interview in Act 1?

5. Who developed the original music for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

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