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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s younger brother?
(a) Oscar Shepard
(b) Logan Shepard
(c) Caleb Shepard
(d) William Shepard

2. Angels in America is a play by what playwright?
(a) Scott McMorrow
(b) Tony Kushner
(c) Thornton Wilder
(d) Nilo Cruz

3. Moisés Kaufman claims in Act 1 that “Today Leigh tried to explain to me to no avail what” what was?
(a) Chicken fried steak
(b) Fried ice cream
(c) Elk burgers
(d) Jumbo shrimp

4. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde deals with Oscar Wilde's three trials on the matter of his relationship with whom?
(a) Reverend Fred Phelps
(b) Jim Geringer
(c) Russell Henderson
(d) Lord Alfred Douglas

5. Who says, “Stewardship is one thing all out ancestors taught us” in Act 1?
(a) Bill McKinney
(b) Dennis Shepard
(c) Eileen Engen
(d) Tiffany Edwards

Short Answer Questions

1. When was James Byrd, Jr. born?

2. In what year did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?

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

4. What did the sign on the University Inn say when the Tectonic Theater Project members entered Laramie, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?

5. When was Bertolt Brecht born?

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