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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose following quote is used in the introduction: “After all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free”?
(a) Arthur Miller’s
(b) Henry David Thoreau’s
(c) John Keats’s
(d) Walt Whitman’s

2. What is Matthew Shepard’s father’s name?
(a) Mark Shepard
(b) Dennis Shepard
(c) Roger Shepard
(d) James Shepard

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

4. Who says, “Stewardship is one thing all out ancestors taught us” in Act 1?
(a) Dennis Shepard
(b) Bill McKinney
(c) Eileen Engen
(d) Tiffany Edwards

5. 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) Reflection work
(d) Truth work

6. Who developed the original music for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?
(a) Doug Laws
(b) Harry Woods
(c) Stephen Belber
(d) Peter Golub

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

8. What did the sign at the Wyoming border say when the Tectonic Theater Project members first arrived, according to Greg Pierotti in Act 1?
(a) Wyoming—where buffalo outnumber people
(b) Wyoming—land of Yellowstone
(c) Wyoming—like no place on earth
(d) Wyoming—river fun in the mountain sun

9. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?
(a) 1974
(b) 1900
(c) 1951
(d) 1935

10. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) The Al Hirschfield Theatre
(b) The Union Square Theatre
(c) The St. James Theatre
(d) The Ethel Barrymore Theatre

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

12. The author of the Introduction to The Laramie Project writes: “There are moments in history when a particular event brings the various ideologies and beliefs prevailing in a culture into sharp focus. At these junctures event becomes a” what, of sorts?
(a) Lightning rod
(b) Super Bowl
(c) Eureka moment
(d) Train crash

13. In Waco, Texas, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which lasted how many days?
(a) 50
(b) 5
(c) 28
(d) 12

14. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that all the towns of southern Wyoming are laid out and spaced because of what coming through?
(a) Buffalo
(b) The railroad
(c) The Pony Express
(d) The weather

15. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that Wyoming is one of the largest states in the country and the least what?
(a) Populated
(b) Educated
(c) Wealthy
(d) Social

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Oscar Wilde born?

3. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his grandparents moved to Laramie, Wyoming, when?

4. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?

5. When was Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde published?

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