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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what newspaper does Kerry Drake report in The Laramie Project?
(a) The Jackson Hole News
(b) The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
(c) The Laramie Boomerang
(d) The Casper Star-Tribune

3. The Narrator states in the beginning of Act 1 that the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, on what date?
(a) November 14, 1998
(b) February 18, 1999
(c) July 4, 1997
(d) May 11, 2000

4. According to the author in the Author’s Note, during the development of the play, the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie how many times to conduct interviews?
(a) 6
(b) 11
(c) 2
(d) 9

5. Who discovered the body of Matthew Shepard?
(a) Lucy Thompson
(b) Aaron Kreifels
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Jon Peacock

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act 3, the Reverend Fred Phelps claims that “the fags are bringing us out here trying to make Matthew Shepard into a poster boy for” what?

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

3. In what year did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?

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

5. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?

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