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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Author’s Note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 4
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 0

2. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?
(a) Realism and naturalism
(b) Manners and politeness
(c) Drama and exaggeration
(d) Religion and politics

3. When did Bertolt Brecht die?
(a) 1997
(b) 1956
(c) 1916
(d) 1933

4. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?
(a) Germany
(b) Morocco
(c) Spain
(d) India

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

Short Answer Questions

1. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?

2. According to the author in the Author’s Note, during the development of the play, the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie how many times to conduct interviews?

3. 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?

4. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s younger brother?

5. At what university did Matthew Shepard study?

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