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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) 35
(b) 120
(c) 75
(d) 200

2. For how many hours was Matthew Shepard abandoned and tied to a fence before being discovered?
(a) 4 hours
(b) 18 hours
(c) 7 hours
(d) 23 hours

3. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?
(a) Theater of the Absurd
(b) Dadaism
(c) Naturalism
(d) Epic theater

4. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?
(a) Manners and politeness
(b) Religion and politics
(c) Realism and naturalism
(d) Drama and exaggeration

5. In “Moment: Aaron McKinney” of Act 3, who is played in a tape recording questioning Aaron McKinney?
(a) Jim Geringer
(b) Sergeant Rob DeBree
(c) Father Roger Schmit
(d) Greg Pierotti

Short Answer Questions

1. What resident of Laramie states that “As a lesbian I was more concerned for my safety” in “Moment: Live and Let Live” of Act 2?

2. 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.”?

3. Who did the waitress Debbie introduce herself to at a local inn in Act 1?

4. What was the term that was used to refer to the individuals who dressed as angels and assembled around the Westboro Baptist Church protesters at the trial of Russell Henderson?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the first?

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