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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 the author in the costuming and staging notes, The Laramie Project should be an event driven by what?
(a) Scenery
(b) Costumes
(c) Lighting
(d) Acting

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

3. In what year was The Laramie Project first performed in Laramie, Wyoming, according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) 2000
(b) 2003
(c) 1999
(d) 2007

4. Where was James Byrd, Jr. murdered?
(a) Jasper, Texas
(b) Omaha, Nebraska
(c) Phoenix, Arizona
(d) Pueblo, Colorado

5. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) November
(b) April
(c) September
(d) May

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?

4. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?

5. In “Moment: The Gem City of the Plains” from Act 2, Newsperson 1 says that there are no more what per capita in Wyoming than there are in New York, Florida, or California?

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