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

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

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

4. Who led the Tectonic Theater Project’s group in Laramie as the head writer, according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Greg Pierotti
(b) Stephen Belber
(c) Leigh Fondakowski
(d) Stephen Wangh

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was The Laramie Project first performed in Laramie, Wyoming, according to the author of the Introduction?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?

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

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

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