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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the staging notes, the author describes the set of The Laramie Project as what?
(a) A town square
(b) A medieval hut
(c) A performance space
(d) A church

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

4. When was Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde published?
(a) 1985
(b) 1992
(c) 1983
(d) 1997

5. What sect leader was killed in the Waco siege?
(a) David Koresh
(b) Jim Jones
(c) Robert Edwards
(d) Charles Manson

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his grandparents moved to Laramie, Wyoming, when?

3. What does Barbara Pitts say the first thing to welcome them was when they arrived in Laramie in Act 1?

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

5. What Laramie resident claims to have moved to Laramie from rural Texas in Act 1?

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