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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 mother?
(a) Mary Shepard
(b) Judy Shepard
(c) Anna Shepard
(d) Martha Shepard

2. What is Matthew Shepard’s father’s name?
(a) Roger Shepard
(b) James Shepard
(c) Mark Shepard
(d) Dennis Shepard

3. In the Waco siege, a fire destroyed the compound when a second assault was launched, killing how many people?
(a) 37
(b) 112
(c) 75
(d) 18

4. 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?
(a) Hawaii
(b) The East Coast
(c) The Midwest
(d) Canada

5. 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?
(a) 39,429
(b) 15,231
(c) 26,687
(d) 75,933

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Oscar Wilde born?

2. Where was Matthew Shepard born?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?

4. What question does Sergeant Hing say the reporter asked him, completely missing the point, in Act 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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