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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?
(a) Good and evil
(b) Film and television
(c) Newspapers and magazines
(d) Right and wrong

2. Who was the bartender at the Fireside Bar on the night that Matthew Shepard was killed?
(a) Matt Galloway
(b) Aaron Kreifels
(c) Andy Paris
(d) Russell Henderson

3. In the Waco siege, a fire destroyed the compound when a second assault was launched, killing how many people?
(a) 37
(b) 112
(c) 75
(d) 18

4. 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?
(a) 11
(b) 6
(c) 2
(d) 9

5. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?
(a) Engineering
(b) English literature
(c) Mathematics
(d) Political science

Short Answer Questions

1. Catherine Connolly states that the arraignment took place on what day of the week in Act 2?

2. Who in Act 1 says, “It’s hard to talk about Laramie now, to tell you what Laramie is, for us”?

3. What is the name of Romaine Patterson’s sister in The Laramie Project?

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”?

5. What sect leader was killed in the Waco siege?

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