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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Narrator states in the beginning of Act 1 that the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, on what date?
(a) July 4, 1997
(b) November 14, 1998
(c) May 11, 2000
(d) February 18, 1999

2. Angels in America is a play by what playwright?
(a) Tony Kushner
(b) Scott McMorrow
(c) Nilo Cruz
(d) Thornton Wilder

3. Doc O’Connor claims that the trains that go by where he lives pass every how many minutes in Act 1?
(a) 58
(b) 13
(c) 22
(d) 35

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”?
(a) Walt Whitman’s
(b) Henry David Thoreau’s
(c) John Keats’s
(d) Arthur Miller’s

5. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his grandparents moved to Laramie, Wyoming, when?
(a) Late 1800s
(b) Mid 1700s
(c) Mid 1800s
(d) Early 1900s

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sect leader was killed in the Waco siege?

3. How many weeks after the murder of Matthew Shepard did the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project travel to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?

4. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, when he and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, they did not know that they would devote how much time to the project?

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