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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was James Byrd, Jr. born?
(a) 1904
(b) 1949
(c) 1920
(d) 1933

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?
(a) 5 months
(b) 11 months
(c) 2 years
(d) 4 years

3. Jedadiah Schultz says in Act 1 that his parents reacted how when he told them he would be doing a scene from Angels in America for a high school competition?
(a) They offered to pay for medical school
(b) They bought him a car
(c) They refused to attend
(d) They called their friends to attend

4. The president of the University of Wyoming states that he lets his children play out at night until what time in Act 1?
(a) 8:30 p.m.
(b) 1 a.m.
(c) 11 p.m.
(d) 9 p.m.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, along with Moisés Kaufman to collect interviews?

2. Who led the Tectonic Theater Project’s group in Laramie as the head writer, according to the Author’s Note?

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

4. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?

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

(see the answer key)

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