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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?
(a) Right and wrong
(b) Good and evil
(c) Newspapers and magazines
(d) Film and television

2. In “Moment: The Essential Facts” in Act 2, the Newspaperperson states that the focus is on what courthouse?
(a) The Albany County Courthouse
(b) The Carbon County Courthouse
(c) The Teton County Courthouse
(d) The Crook County Courthouse

3. How many weeks after the murder of Matthew Shepard did the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project travel to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) 2
(b) 0
(c) 1
(d) 4

4. In “Moment: Jury Selection” of Act 3, who claims, “As soon as they started jury selection, you know, everybody was coming into my shop with ‘I don’t want to be on this trial’”?
(a) Harry Woods
(b) Trish Steger
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Jon Peacock

5. Who is described as the head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Rebecca Hilliker
(b) Bill McKinney
(c) Marge Murray
(d) Philip Dubois

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Moisés Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s later one-acts?

2. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his family is what generation in Laramie, Wyoming?

3. 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?

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

5. Who is described as a limousine driver in Act 1?

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