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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Catherine Connolly in Act 2, the arraignment lasted how long?
(a) 6 hours
(b) 5 minutes
(c) 20 minutes
(d) 2 hours

2. 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?
(a) Greg Pierotti
(b) Jon Peacock
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Stephen Wangh

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

4. In “Moment: The Gem City of the Plains” from Act 2, Newsperson 2 says that “Aaron McKinney and his friend Russell Henderson came from” where?
(a) The poor side of town
(b) Out in the woods
(c) Up on the bluffs
(d) Down by the river

5. The author of the Introduction to The Laramie Project writes: “There are moments in history when a particular event brings the various ideologies and beliefs prevailing in a culture into sharp focus. At these junctures event becomes a” what, of sorts?
(a) Eureka moment
(b) Lightning rod
(c) Super Bowl
(d) Train crash

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Oscar Wilde born?

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

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

4. What is repeated by several of the play’s characters as being the unsaid motto of the people of Laramie?

5. Whose mother worked in a roundhouse, according to the narrative in Act 1?

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