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

2. According to the author in the Author’s Note, during the development of the play, the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie how many times to conduct interviews?
(a) 9
(b) 2
(c) 6
(d) 11

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

4. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?
(a) October 22, 2009
(b) June 16, 2001
(c) December 29, 2007
(d) May 3, 2004

5. The author of the Introduction to The Laramie Project writes: “There are moments in history when a particular event brings the various ideologies and beliefs prevailing in a culture into sharp focus. At these junctures event becomes a” what, of sorts?
(a) Lightning rod
(b) Eureka moment
(c) Train crash
(d) Super Bowl

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde published?

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

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

4. 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”?

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

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