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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 costuming and staging notes, The Laramie Project should be an event driven by what?
(a) Costumes
(b) Acting
(c) Lighting
(d) Scenery

2. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?
(a) The Los Angeles Taper Forum
(b) The Guthrie Theater
(c) The Denver Center Theater
(d) The Actor’s Theater of San Francisco

3. What did the sign on the University Inn say when the Tectonic Theater Project members entered Laramie, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?
(a) Peace be with you
(b) God bless everyone
(c) Hate is not a Laramie value
(d) Laramie mourns

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

5. The author of the Introduction to The Laramie Project writes: “There are moments in history when a particular event brings the various ideologies and beliefs prevailing in a culture into sharp focus. At these junctures event becomes a” what, of sorts?
(a) Lightning rod
(b) Eureka moment
(c) Train crash
(d) Super Bowl

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?

2. When was James Byrd, Jr. born?

3. What Laramie resident claims to have moved to Laramie from rural Texas in Act 1?

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. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?

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