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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. In the essay by Bertolt Brecht discussed in the Introduction to The Laramie Project, the author describes a model based upon “an eyewitness demonstrating to a collection of people how” what took place?
(a) A fire
(b) A murder
(c) A rainbow
(d) A traffic accident

2. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?
(a) Matthew, Tell me about Heaven: A Firsthand Description of the Afterlife
(b) Laramie Holds the Range
(c) The Man from Laramie
(d) The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

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

4. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?
(a) Realism and naturalism
(b) Religion and politics
(c) Manners and politeness
(d) Drama and exaggeration

5. 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) 0
(d) 2

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

3. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?

4. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?

5. 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?

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