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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?
(a) 1947
(b) 1938
(c) 1966
(d) 1954

2. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) The Union Square Theatre
(b) The Al Hirschfield Theatre
(c) The St. James Theatre
(d) The Ethel Barrymore Theatre

3. Who developed the original music for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?
(a) Peter Golub
(b) Doug Laws
(c) Stephen Belber
(d) Harry Woods

4. Who says, “Stewardship is one thing all out ancestors taught us” in Act 1?
(a) Dennis Shepard
(b) Eileen Engen
(c) Bill McKinney
(d) Tiffany Edwards

5. What did the sign at the Wyoming border say when the Tectonic Theater Project members first arrived, according to Greg Pierotti in Act 1?
(a) Wyoming—river fun in the mountain sun
(b) Wyoming—like no place on earth
(c) Wyoming—land of Yellowstone
(d) Wyoming—where buffalo outnumber people

Short Answer Questions

1. Jedadiah Schultz says in Act 1 that his parents reacted how when he told them he would be doing a scene from Angels in America for a high school competition?

2. Moisés Kaufman claims in Act 1 that “Today Leigh tried to explain to me to no avail what” what was?

3. In what year did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?

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

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

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