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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 examine the subject matter at hand
(b) To explore theatrical language and form
(c) To expose political and religious viewpoints
(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) 4
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 0

3. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?
(a) The Actor’s Theater of San Francisco
(b) The Denver Center Theater
(c) The Los Angeles Taper Forum
(d) The Guthrie Theater

4. Where was Matthew Shepard born?
(a) Durango, Colorado
(b) Kalispell, Montana
(c) Casper, Wyoming
(d) Mammoth Lakes, California

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed the original music for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

2. How many members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, along with Moisés Kaufman to collect interviews?

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

4. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?

5. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?

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