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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. When was Oscar Wilde born?
(a) 1829
(b) 1897
(c) 1912
(d) 1854

2. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?
(a) Mathematics
(b) English literature
(c) Engineering
(d) Political science

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

4. Who were the Tectonic Theater Project’s associate writers who led the group in Laramie, according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Greg Pierotti and Leigh Fondakowski
(b) Leigh Fondakowski and Jon Peacock
(c) Stephen Belber and Jim Geringer
(d) Stephen Belber and Greg Pierotti

5. 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?
(a) Stephen Wangh
(b) Sherry Johnson
(c) Greg Pierotti
(d) Jon Peacock

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?

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

3. When was Bertolt Brecht born?

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

5. What Brecht essay does the author discuss in the Introduction?

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