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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s younger brother?
(a) William Shepard
(b) Caleb Shepard
(c) Logan Shepard
(d) Oscar Shepard

2. The head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming states that she has found the people of Laramie to be nicer than those where that she used to teach?
(a) The Midwest
(b) The East Coast
(c) Hawaii
(d) Canada

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

4. What is repeated by several of the play’s characters as being the unsaid motto of the people of Laramie?
(a) Love everybody
(b) Freedom for all
(c) Don’t judge
(d) Live and let live

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?

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

3. 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?

4. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?

5. Greg Pierotti claims in “Moment: Journal Entries” of Act 1, that he swore he heard what the moment he crossed the Wyoming border?

(see the answer key)

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