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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Moment: Live and Let Live” from Act 2, Sergeant Hing says that Laramie has “one of the most vocal populations of” what in the state?
(a) College students
(b) Gay people
(c) Bigots
(d) Women

2. Who is described as the chief investigating officer in the case of Matthew Shepard’s murder in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” of Act 2?
(a) Detective Rob DeBree
(b) Sergeant Mark Thompson
(c) Commander Thomas Rodgers
(d) Chief Maxwell Southerland

3. In “Moment: Vigils” of Act 2, the narrator states that how many people attended a vigil in Los Angeles for Matthew Shepard?
(a) 5,000
(b) 3,700
(c) 8,500
(d) 2,200

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

5. In “Moment: The Essential Facts” in Act 2, the Newspaperperson states that the focus is on what courthouse?
(a) The Crook County Courthouse
(b) The Carbon County Courthouse
(c) The Teton County Courthouse
(d) The Albany County Courthouse

Short Answer Questions

1. When was James Byrd, Jr. born?

2. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?

3. According to the Narrator in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” in Act 2, both of the murder suspects pled how to the charges against them?

4. For what newspaper does Kerry Drake report in The Laramie Project?

5. 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”?

(see the answer key)

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