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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a type of editorial bias in mass media in which events and topics in news stories and pieces are over-hyped to increase viewership or readership numbers?
(a) Politicism
(b) Dramatism
(c) Moralism
(d) Sensationalism

2. What Laramie resident states in the play, “My secret hope was that they were from somewhere else, that then of course you can create that distance: We don’t grow children like that here. Well, it’s pretty clear that we do grow children like that here …”?
(a) Rob DeBree
(b) Jeffrey Lockwood
(c) Greg Pierotti
(d) Reggie Fluty

3. Where was James Byrd, Jr. murdered?
(a) Pueblo, Colorado
(b) Jasper, Texas
(c) Omaha, Nebraska
(d) Phoenix, Arizona

4. When did Bertolt Brecht die?
(a) 1933
(b) 1916
(c) 1997
(d) 1956

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde deals with Oscar Wilde's three trials on the matter of his relationship with whom?

2. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that Wyoming is one of the largest states in the country and the least what?

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

4. Greg Pierotti claims in “Moment: Journal Entries” of Act 1, that he swore he heard what the moment he crossed the Wyoming border?

5. Who is described as the chief investigating officer in the case of Matthew Shepard’s murder in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” of Act 2?

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