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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The Pony Express
(b) Buffalo
(c) The weather
(d) The railroad

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

3. When did Bertolt Brecht die?
(a) 1933
(b) 1997
(c) 1916
(d) 1956

4. Doc O’Connor claims that the trains that go by where he lives pass every how many minutes in Act 1?
(a) 35
(b) 22
(c) 58
(d) 13

5. Where was James Byrd, Jr. murdered?
(a) Phoenix, Arizona
(b) Omaha, Nebraska
(c) Pueblo, Colorado
(d) Jasper, Texas

6. According to the author in the costuming and staging notes, The Laramie Project should be an event driven by what?
(a) Acting
(b) Lighting
(c) Costumes
(d) Scenery

7. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde deals with Oscar Wilde's three trials on the matter of his relationship with whom?
(a) Russell Henderson
(b) Jim Geringer
(c) Lord Alfred Douglas
(d) Reverend Fred Phelps

8. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) November
(b) September
(c) April
(d) May

9. The president of the University of Wyoming states that he lets his children play out at night until what time in Act 1?
(a) 9 p.m.
(b) 1 a.m.
(c) 11 p.m.
(d) 8:30 p.m.

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

11. According to Doc O’Connor in Act 1, the trains used to carry cattle but now all they carry is what?
(a) Coal and lumber
(b) Grain and milk
(c) Chemicals and metal
(d) Diapers and cars

12. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?
(a) Mathematics
(b) Engineering
(c) Political science
(d) English literature

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

14. 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) Train crash
(b) Super Bowl
(c) Lightning rod
(d) Eureka moment

15. In what year was Matthew Shepard born?
(a) 1991
(b) 1982
(c) 1971
(d) 1976

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Pitts say the first thing to welcome them was when they arrived in Laramie in Act 1?

2. Who in Act 1 says, “It’s hard to talk about Laramie now, to tell you what Laramie is, for us”?

3. The head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming states that she has found the people of Laramie to be nicer than those where that she used to teach?

4. Who is described as the head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming in Act 1?

5. 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?

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