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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in Act 1 says, “It’s hard to talk about Laramie now, to tell you what Laramie is, for us”?
(a) Matt Galloway
(b) Aaron Kreifels
(c) Jedadiah Schultz
(d) Doc O'Connor

2. Who did the waitress Debbie introduce herself to at a local inn in Act 1?
(a) Matt Mickelson
(b) Tiffany Edwards
(c) Matt Galloway
(d) Leigh Fondakowski

3. 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) 11
(b) 6
(c) 2
(d) 9

4. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?
(a) 1995
(b) 1983
(c) 1988
(d) 1991

5. Where was Oscar Wilde born?
(a) Dublin, Ireland
(b) Sydney, Australia
(c) Paris, France
(d) Warsaw, Poland

Short Answer Questions

1. The president of the University of Wyoming states that he lets his children play out at night until what time in Act 1?

2. 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?

3. Where was James Byrd, Jr. murdered?

4. Where does the Narrator say Doc O’Connor lives in Act 1?

5. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his grandparents moved to Laramie, Wyoming, when?

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