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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first police officer who arrived on the scene and attempted to save Matthew Shepard was informed a few days later that Matthew was positive for what?
(a) Drugs
(b) Bird Flu
(c) Cancer
(d) HIV

2. 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?
(a) The poor side of town
(b) Down by the river
(c) Up on the bluffs
(d) Out in the woods

3. Who says, “Stewardship is one thing all out ancestors taught us” in Act 1?
(a) Tiffany Edwards
(b) Bill McKinney
(c) Dennis Shepard
(d) Eileen Engen

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

5. In “Moment: Dennis Shepard’s Statement” of Act 3, the Narrator states that who were approached by McKinney’s defense team, pleading for their client’s life?
(a) Dennis Shepard’s siblings
(b) Dennis Shepard’s coworkers
(c) Matthew Shepard’s parents
(d) Matthew Shepard’s grandparents

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde published?

3. For what newspaper does Kerry Drake report in The Laramie Project?

4. In “Moment: Gay Panic” of Act 3, who says, “When that defense team argued that McKinney did what he did because Matthew made a pass at him … I just wanted to vomit, because that’s like saying that it’s okay.”?

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

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