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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?
(a) 1938
(b) 1966
(c) 1947
(d) 1954

2. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?
(a) Naturalism
(b) Dadaism
(c) Epic theater
(d) Theater of the Absurd

3. When was Oscar Wilde born?
(a) 1854
(b) 1912
(c) 1829
(d) 1897

4. In what year was Matthew Shepard born?
(a) 1971
(b) 1991
(c) 1976
(d) 1982

5. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?
(a) Religion and politics
(b) Manners and politeness
(c) Realism and naturalism
(d) Drama and exaggeration

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the costuming and staging notes, The Laramie Project should be an event driven by what?

2. Who is described as the head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming in Act 1?

3. What did the sign on the University Inn say when the Tectonic Theater Project members entered Laramie, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?

4. Who does Andy Paris interview in Act 1?

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

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