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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?
(a) 1935
(b) 1951
(c) 1974
(d) 1900

3. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Amanda Gronich
(b) Philip Dubois
(c) Catherine Connolly
(d) Rob DeBree

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

5. James Byrd, Jr. was murdered by three men who asserted to be what?
(a) College educated
(b) Peace activists
(c) White supremacists
(d) Policemen

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as a limousine driver in Act 1?

2. The Narrator states in the beginning of Act 1 that the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, on what date?

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”?

4. Who designed the original set for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

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

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