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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Moment: Medical Update” in Act 2, the Narrator announces the “Matthew Shepard update at three P.M., Saturday” on what date?
(a) August 22
(b) October 10
(c) December 19
(d) March 5

2. What Laramie resident states in the play, “My secret hope was that they were from somewhere else, that then of course you can create that distance: We don’t grow children like that here. Well, it’s pretty clear that we do grow children like that here …”?
(a) Reggie Fluty
(b) Greg Pierotti
(c) Rob DeBree
(d) Jeffrey Lockwood

3. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Philip Dubois
(b) Rob DeBree
(c) Catherine Connolly
(d) Amanda Gronich

4. Whose following quote is used in the introduction: “After all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free”?
(a) Arthur Miller’s
(b) John Keats’s
(c) Henry David Thoreau’s
(d) Walt Whitman’s

5. What does Barbara Pitts say the first thing to welcome them was when they arrived in Laramie in Act 1?
(a) A protest
(b) A rodeo
(c) Wal-Mart
(d) A Ferrari dealership

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Moment: The Essential Facts” in Act 2, the Newspaperperson states that who are being charged with the brutal beating of Matthew Shepard?

2. When was Bertolt Brecht born?

3. In the Waco siege, a fire destroyed the compound when a second assault was launched, killing how many people?

4. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde deals with Oscar Wilde's three trials on the matter of his relationship with whom?

5. Where was Oscar Wilde born?

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