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

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

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

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) Right and wrong
(d) Film and television

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Matthew Shepard beaten and raped during a high school trip, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks?

2. Who wrote Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde?

3. Where was Matthew Shepard born?

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

5. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?

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