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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Matthew Shepard born?
(a) Durango, Colorado
(b) Kalispell, Montana
(c) Casper, Wyoming
(d) Mammoth Lakes, California

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

3. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) September
(b) May
(c) November
(d) April

4. Who is described in the play as the first police officer on the scene when Matthew Shepard’s body was discovered?
(a) Marge Murray
(b) Philip Dubois
(c) Aaron McKinney
(d) Reggie Fluty

5. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?
(a) Epic theater
(b) Naturalism
(c) Theater of the Absurd
(d) Dadaism

Short Answer Questions

1. What Laramie resident states in Act 2 that he believes the gay community took “this as an advantage, said this is a good time for us to exploit this”?

2. The first police officer who arrived on the scene and attempted to save Matthew Shepard states that she had been building a lean-to for what animals, causing open cuts on her hands in Act 2?

3. In “Moment: Dennis Shepard’s Statement” of Act 3, the Narrator states that who were approached by McKinney’s defense team, pleading for their client’s life?

4. Who joined the writing team for Tectonic Theater Project’s production of The Laramie Project as “an associate writer and ‘bench coach’” according to the Author’s Note?

5. What is repeated by several of the play’s characters as being the unsaid motto of the people of Laramie?

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