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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Laramie resident claims to have moved to Laramie from rural Texas in Act 1?
(a) Catherine Connolly
(b) Matt Galloway
(c) Stephen Belber
(d) Zackie Salmon

2. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the first?
(a) To explain current events
(b) To examine the subject matter at hand
(c) To explore theatrical language and form
(d) To expose political and religious viewpoints

3. When did Bertolt Brecht die?
(a) 1997
(b) 1916
(c) 1956
(d) 1933

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

5. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?
(a) 1983
(b) 1991
(c) 1995
(d) 1988

Short Answer Questions

1. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?

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

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

4. What question does Sergeant Hing say the reporter asked him, completely missing the point, in Act 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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