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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) 1998
(b) 2004
(c) 2009
(d) 2000

2. What question does Sergeant Hing say the reporter asked him, completely missing the point, in Act 1?
(a) How cold does it get here?
(b) Who in the hell would want to run out here?
(c) What’s the population of Laramie?
(d) Are there bears out here?

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

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) The East Coast
(b) Hawaii
(c) The Midwest
(d) Canada

5. 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) Henry David Thoreau’s
(b) John Keats’s
(c) Arthur Miller’s
(d) Walt Whitman’s

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?

3. When did Bertolt Brecht die?

4. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?

5. Who joined the writing team for Tectonic Theater Project’s production of The Laramie Project as “an associate writer and ‘bench coach’” according to the Author’s Note?

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