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

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) Realism and naturalism
(b) Drama and exaggeration
(c) Religion and politics
(d) Manners and politeness

2. 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) 9
(b) 11
(c) 2
(d) 6

3. What question does Sergeant Hing say the reporter asked him, completely missing the point, in Act 1?
(a) Are there bears out here?
(b) Who in the hell would want to run out here?
(c) How cold does it get here?
(d) What’s the population of Laramie?

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

5. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?
(a) 1974
(b) 1900
(c) 1951
(d) 1935

Short Answer Questions

1. James Byrd, Jr. was murdered by three men who asserted to be what?

2. Who designed the original set for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

3. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

4. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?

5. The president of the University of Wyoming states that he lets his children play out at night until what time in Act 1?

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