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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who led the Tectonic Theater Project’s group in Laramie as the head writer, according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Greg Pierotti
(b) Leigh Fondakowski
(c) Stephen Belber
(d) Stephen Wangh

3. Whose following quote is used in the introduction: “After all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free”?
(a) John Keats’s
(b) Henry David Thoreau’s
(c) Walt Whitman’s
(d) Arthur Miller’s

4. At what university did Matthew Shepard study?
(a) The University of Alaska
(b) The University of Wyoming
(c) The University of Colorado
(d) The University of Montana

5. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his family is what generation in Laramie, Wyoming?
(a) Fifth
(b) Second
(c) Third
(d) Fourth

Short Answer Questions

1. Doc O’Connor claims that the trains that go by where he lives pass every how many minutes in Act 1?

2. How many weeks after the murder of Matthew Shepard did the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project travel to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?

3. Who were the Tectonic Theater Project’s associate writers who led the group in Laramie, according to the Author’s Note?

4. Who claims in Act 1, “But Wyoming, unless you’re a professional, well, the bulk of the people are working minimum-wage jobs”?

5. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?

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