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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the sect that had a standoff with the FBI and AFT in Waco, Texas?
(a) The Lord’s Children
(b) The Divinity Project
(c) The Branch Davidians
(d) Al Qaeda

2. The Waco siege began on February 28 of what year?
(a) 1982
(b) 1996
(c) 1993
(d) 1988

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

4. In the essay by Bertolt Brecht discussed in the Introduction to The Laramie Project, the author describes a model based upon “an eyewitness demonstrating to a collection of people how” what took place?
(a) A traffic accident
(b) A murder
(c) A rainbow
(d) A fire

5. Where was Matthew Shepard beaten and raped during a high school trip, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks?
(a) Mexico
(b) Vietnam
(c) Germany
(d) Morocco

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s mother?

3. 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?

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

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

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