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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does April Silva say she grew up in Act 1?
(a) Cody, Wyoming
(b) Tacoma, Washington
(c) Minot, North Dakota
(d) Boise, Idaho

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

3. Where was Matthew Shepard born?
(a) Casper, Wyoming
(b) Durango, Colorado
(c) Mammoth Lakes, California
(d) Kalispell, Montana

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) John Keats’s
(b) Henry David Thoreau’s
(c) Walt Whitman’s
(d) Arthur Miller’s

5. Greg Pierotti claims in “Moment: Journal Entries” of Act 1, that he swore he heard what the moment he crossed the Wyoming border?
(a) Howling wolves
(b) Hooting owls
(c) A herd of buffalo
(d) Screaming cowboys

Short Answer Questions

1. What Brecht essay does the author discuss in the Introduction?

2. According to the author in the Author’s Note, during the development of the play, the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie how many times to conduct interviews?

3. In Waco, Texas, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which lasted how many days?

4. What question does Sergeant Hing say the reporter asked him, completely missing the point, in Act 1?

5. James Byrd, Jr. was murdered by three men who asserted to be what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Moisés Kaufman. How is he involved with the Tectonic Theater Project?

2. Who is the first person introduced in Act 1 that knew Matthew Shepard?

3. How do the townspeople of Laramie describe Matthew Shepard in Act 1?

4. What does Rebecca Hilliker relate about her students in Act 1’s “Moment: Rebecca Hilliker”?

5. Who makes statements in “Moment: Finding Matthew Shepard”?

6. How does Moisés Kaufman’s homeland view his works?

7. What do the residents of Laramie relate in “Moment: A Definition”?

8. How does Act 1 of The Laramie Project begin? How is this “scene” defined?

9. What is related in “Moment: The Fireside” in Act 1?

10. Who speaks in the introduction to Act 1? What is established in this opening?

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