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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does April Silva say she grew up in Act 1?
(a) Cody, Wyoming
(b) Boise, Idaho
(c) Minot, North Dakota
(d) Tacoma, Washington

2. Whose mother worked in a roundhouse, according to the narrative in Act 1?
(a) Dennis Shepard’s
(b) Amanda Gronich’s
(c) Marge Murray’s
(d) Matt Mickelson’s

3. 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) John Keats’s
(c) Henry David Thoreau’s
(d) Arthur Miller’s

4. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?
(a) 1988
(b) 1995
(c) 1983
(d) 1991

5. When was Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde published?
(a) 1997
(b) 1992
(c) 1983
(d) 1985

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?

5. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?

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