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

2. According to Doc O’Connor in Act 1, the trains used to carry cattle but now all they carry is what?
(a) Grain and milk
(b) Diapers and cars
(c) Chemicals and metal
(d) Coal and lumber

3. Who was the CEO of the Poudre Valley Hospital at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder?
(a) Harry Woods
(b) Rulon Stacey
(c) Doug Laws
(d) Matt Galloway

4. Catherine Connolly states that the arraignment took place on what day of the week in Act 2?
(a) Sunday
(b) Monday
(c) Thursday
(d) Friday

5. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?
(a) Matt Mickelson
(b) Philip Dubois
(c) Greg Pierotti
(d) Harry Woods

Short Answer Questions

1. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his family is what generation in Laramie, Wyoming?

2. In the staging notes, the author describes the set of The Laramie Project as what?

3. According to the Narrator in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” in Act 2, both of the murder suspects pled how to the charges against them?

4. Who was the owner of the Fireside Bar at the time that Matthew Shepard was killed?

5. 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?

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