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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Oscar Wilde born?
(a) 1897
(b) 1854
(c) 1829
(d) 1912

2. When was Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde published?
(a) 1992
(b) 1985
(c) 1997
(d) 1983

3. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) November
(b) May
(c) April
(d) September

4. The first police officer who arrived on the scene and attempted to save Matthew Shepard states that she had been building a lean-to for what animals, causing open cuts on her hands in Act 2?
(a) Cows
(b) Sheep
(c) Chickens
(d) Llamas

5. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Rob DeBree
(b) Philip Dubois
(c) Catherine Connolly
(d) Amanda Gronich

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was James Byrd, Jr. murdered?

2. The Judge completes the arraignment in Act 2 by stating that “Said defendants left the victim” how?

3. Whose mother worked in a roundhouse, according to the narrative in Act 1?

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

5. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the second?

(see the answer key)

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