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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, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?
(a) Newspapers and magazines
(b) Film and television
(c) Good and evil
(d) Right and wrong

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

3. How many members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, along with Moisés Kaufman to collect interviews?
(a) 9
(b) 4
(c) 12
(d) 2

4. 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?
(a) Super Bowl
(b) Lightning rod
(c) Train crash
(d) Eureka moment

5. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?
(a) 2001
(b) 1992
(c) 1998
(d) 1995

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?

3. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?

4. When was Bertolt Brecht born?

5. Where was Matthew Shepard born?

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