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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?
(a) 1947
(b) 1954
(c) 1966
(d) 1938

2. 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) Super Bowl
(b) Train crash
(c) Eureka moment
(d) Lightning rod

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

4. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s mother?
(a) Anna Shepard
(b) Judy Shepard
(c) Mary Shepard
(d) Martha Shepard

5. In the essay by Bertolt Brecht discussed in the Introduction to The Laramie Project, the author describes a model based upon “an eyewitness demonstrating to a collection of people how” what took place?
(a) A fire
(b) A murder
(c) A traffic accident
(d) A rainbow

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as the head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming in Act 1?

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

3. Who is described as a limousine driver in Act 1?

4. The Wyoming governor in Act 2 states, “I would like to urge the people of Wyoming against overreacting in a way that gives one group” what?

5. Doc O’Connor claims that the trains that go by where he lives pass every how many minutes in Act 1?

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