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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 states that she had been building a lean-to for what animals, causing open cuts on her hands in Act 2?
(a) Cows
(b) Chickens
(c) Sheep
(d) Llamas

2. 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 rainbow
(c) A murder
(d) A traffic accident

3. What Laramie resident describes being recorded for Hard Copy in Act 2?
(a) Romaine Patterson
(b) Aaron Kreifels
(c) Doc O’Connor
(d) Aaron McKinney

4. The Waco siege began on February 28 of what year?
(a) 1988
(b) 1996
(c) 1982
(d) 1993

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the owner of the Fireside Bar at the time that Matthew Shepard was killed?

2. The Reverend Fred Phelps claims in Act 3 that “God’s _____ is pure.”

3. Rulon Stacey states in “Moment: Medical Update” in Act 2 that Matthew Shepard’s major injuries upon arrival at the hospital consisted of a skull fracture and what?

4. Who wrote Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde?

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

(see the answer key)

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