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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in Act 1 says, “It’s hard to talk about Laramie now, to tell you what Laramie is, for us”?
(a) Doc O'Connor
(b) Jedadiah Schultz
(c) Matt Galloway
(d) Aaron Kreifels

2. In the author’s note about the text, he claims that “When writing this play, we used a technique I developed called” what?
(a) Thought work
(b) Moment work
(c) Truth work
(d) Reflection work

3. Where was Matthew Shepard beaten and raped during a high school trip, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks?
(a) Germany
(b) Vietnam
(c) Mexico
(d) Morocco

4. Who is described as a limousine driver in Act 1?
(a) Jim Geringer
(b) Rob DeBree
(c) Sherry Aanenson
(d) Doc O’Connor

5. What Brecht essay does the author discuss in the Introduction?
(a) The Street Scene
(b) Guerrilla Theater
(c) The Epic Theater
(d) Propaganda in Theater

6. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Rob DeBree
(b) Philip Dubois
(c) Catherine Connolly
(d) Amanda Gronich

7. What did the Welcome to Laramie sign say the population was when the Tectonic Theater Project members arrived, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?
(a) 75,933
(b) 26,687
(c) 15,231
(d) 39,429

8. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?
(a) 1954
(b) 1947
(c) 1966
(d) 1938

9. What did the sign on the University Inn say when the Tectonic Theater Project members entered Laramie, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?
(a) Laramie mourns
(b) Peace be with you
(c) God bless everyone
(d) Hate is not a Laramie value

10. How many members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, along with Moisés Kaufman to collect interviews?
(a) 12
(b) 2
(c) 9
(d) 4

11. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?
(a) 1992
(b) 1998
(c) 2001
(d) 1995

12. Greg Pierotti claims in “Moment: Journal Entries” of Act 1, that he swore he heard what the moment he crossed the Wyoming border?
(a) Screaming cowboys
(b) Howling wolves
(c) Hooting owls
(d) A herd of buffalo

13. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?
(a) Philip Dubois
(b) Harry Woods
(c) Greg Pierotti
(d) Matt Mickelson

14. According to the author in the Introduction, when he and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, they did not know that they would devote how much time to the project?
(a) 4 years
(b) 5 months
(c) 11 months
(d) 2 years

15. When was Oscar Wilde born?
(a) 1912
(b) 1829
(c) 1897
(d) 1854

Short Answer Questions

1. James Byrd, Jr. was murdered by three men who asserted to be what?

2. Who developed the original music for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

3. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?

4. Who says, “Stewardship is one thing all out ancestors taught us” in Act 1?

5. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?

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