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

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

3. According to the author in the Introduction, when he and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, they did not know that they would devote how much time to the project?
(a) 5 months
(b) 2 years
(c) 11 months
(d) 4 years

4. 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) Good and evil
(c) Film and television
(d) Right and wrong

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose following quote is used in the introduction: “After all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free”?

2. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?

3. Who led the Tectonic Theater Project’s group in Laramie as the head writer, according to the Author’s Note?

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

5. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

(see the answer key)

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