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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 in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) September
(b) April
(c) May
(d) November

2. 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) 26,687
(b) 15,231
(c) 39,429
(d) 75,933

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

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

5. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that all the towns of southern Wyoming are laid out and spaced because of what coming through?
(a) The railroad
(b) The Pony Express
(c) The weather
(d) Buffalo

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Oscar Wilde born?

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

4. 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?

5. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

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