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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. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the second?
(a) To explore theatrical language and form
(b) To expose political and religious viewpoints
(c) To examine the subject matter at hand
(d) To explain current events

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

3. What is Matthew Shepard’s father’s name?
(a) Dennis Shepard
(b) Roger Shepard
(c) Mark Shepard
(d) James Shepard

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

5. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?
(a) 1951
(b) 1974
(c) 1935
(d) 1900

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Oscar Wilde born?

2. Where was Matthew Shepard born?

3. At what university did Matthew Shepard study?

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

5. Who led the Tectonic Theater Project’s group in Laramie as the head writer, according to the Author’s Note?

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