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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 first?
(a) To expose political and religious viewpoints
(b) To explore theatrical language and form
(c) To examine the subject matter at hand
(d) To explain current events

2. Who designed the original set for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?
(a) Doug Laws
(b) Andy Paris
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Robert Brill

3. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?
(a) Theater of the Absurd
(b) Epic theater
(c) Naturalism
(d) Dadaism

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

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

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. Where was Matthew Shepard beaten and raped during a high school trip, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks?

3. 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?

4. When was Oscar Wilde born?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?

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