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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What verdict did the jury reach in the case of Aaron McKinney for the charge of aggravated robbery?
(a) Not guilty
(b) Mistrial
(c) Not guilty by reason of insanity
(d) Guilty

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

3. 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

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) 2
(b) 11
(c) 6
(d) 9

5. Who was the CEO of the Poudre Valley Hospital at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder?
(a) Doug Laws
(b) Matt Galloway
(c) Harry Woods
(d) Rulon Stacey

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the Narrator in Act 3, the trial of Russell Henderson was to be what type of trial?

3. Whose mother worked in a roundhouse, according to the narrative in Act 1?

4. According to Doc O’Connor in Act 1, the trains used to carry cattle but now all they carry is what?

5. Who says, “So when they used “gay panic” as their defense, I felt, this is good, if nothing else the truth is going to be told … the truth is coming out” in “Moment: Gay Panic” of Act 3?

(see the answer key)

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