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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. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) The St. James Theatre
(b) The Ethel Barrymore Theatre
(c) The Union Square Theatre
(d) The Al Hirschfield Theatre

2. In what year did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) 2009
(b) 2004
(c) 1998
(d) 2000

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

4. Who wrote Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde?
(a) Terrence McNally
(b) Neil Simon
(c) Frank Galati
(d) Moisés Kaufman

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, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?

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?

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