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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, along with Moisés Kaufman to collect interviews?
(a) 12
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 9

3. Who is described as the head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Rebecca Hilliker
(b) Bill McKinney
(c) Marge Murray
(d) Philip Dubois

4. Moisés Kaufman claims in Act 1 that “Today Leigh tried to explain to me to no avail what” what was?
(a) Elk burgers
(b) Fried ice cream
(c) Chicken fried steak
(d) Jumbo shrimp

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James Byrd, Jr. die?

2. What does Barbara Pitts say the first thing to welcome them was when they arrived in Laramie in Act 1?

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

4. Who joined the writing team for Tectonic Theater Project’s production of The Laramie Project as “an associate writer and ‘bench coach’” according to the Author’s Note?

5. 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?

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