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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 mother?
(a) Judy Shepard
(b) Mary Shepard
(c) Martha Shepard
(d) Anna Shepard

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

3. In “Moment: The Gem City of the Plains” from Act 2, Newsperson 2 says that “Aaron McKinney and his friend Russell Henderson came from” where?
(a) The poor side of town
(b) Down by the river
(c) Out in the woods
(d) Up on the bluffs

4. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?
(a) The Man from Laramie
(b) Matthew, Tell me about Heaven: A Firsthand Description of the Afterlife
(c) Laramie Holds the Range
(d) The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

5. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?
(a) Religion and politics
(b) Realism and naturalism
(c) Manners and politeness
(d) Drama and exaggeration

Short Answer Questions

1. Doc O’Connor claims that the trains that go by where he lives pass every how many minutes in Act 1?

2. The Judge states in Act 2 that the officers of the Laramie Police Department observed what inside of the truck of the suspects that belonged to the victim?

3. The first police officer who arrived on the scene and attempted to save Matthew Shepard was informed a few days later that Matthew was positive for what?

4. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?

5. Who was the girlfriend of Russell Henderson at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder?

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