1. In what year was The Laramie Project first performed in Laramie, Wyoming, according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) 1999
(b) 2000
(c) 2003
(d) 2007

2. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) April
(b) May
(c) November
(d) September

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

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

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) Drama and exaggeration
(c) Realism and naturalism
(d) Religion and politics

Short Answer 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?

2. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?

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. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde deals with Oscar Wilde's three trials on the matter of his relationship with whom?

(see the answer key)

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