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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) 200
(b) 75
(c) 35
(d) 120

2. According to the author in the Introduction, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?
(a) Good and evil
(b) Film and television
(c) Right and wrong
(d) Newspapers and magazines

3. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?
(a) Germany
(b) Spain
(c) Morocco
(d) India

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

5. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?
(a) Laramie Holds the Range
(b) Matthew, Tell me about Heaven: A Firsthand Description of the Afterlife
(c) The Man from Laramie
(d) The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Welcome to Laramie sign say the population was when the Tectonic Theater Project members arrived, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?

2. What did the sign at the Wyoming border say when the Tectonic Theater Project members first arrived, according to Greg Pierotti in Act 1?

3. The head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming states that she has found the people of Laramie to be nicer than those where that she used to teach?

4. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

5. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?

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