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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?
(a) The Man from Laramie
(b) The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
(c) Laramie Holds the Range
(d) Matthew, Tell me about Heaven: A Firsthand Description of the Afterlife

2. According to Doc O’Connor in Act 1, the trains used to carry cattle but now all they carry is what?
(a) Grain and milk
(b) Coal and lumber
(c) Diapers and cars
(d) Chemicals and metal

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

4. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?
(a) The Denver Center Theater
(b) The Guthrie Theater
(c) The Actor’s Theater of San Francisco
(d) The Los Angeles Taper Forum

5. Who says, “Stewardship is one thing all out ancestors taught us” in Act 1?
(a) Eileen Engen
(b) Tiffany Edwards
(c) Dennis Shepard
(d) Bill McKinney

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Oscar Wilde born?

2. According to the author in the Introduction, when he and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, they did not know that they would devote how much time to the project?

3. In the staging notes, the author describes the set of The Laramie Project as what?

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

5. Who designed the original set for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

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