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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) 2009
(b) 2000
(c) 1998
(d) 2004

3. 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) Diapers and cars
(c) Grain and milk
(d) Chemicals and metal

4. When did James Byrd, Jr. die?
(a) 1983
(b) 1962
(c) 1978
(d) 1998

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

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

7. What Laramie resident claims to have moved to Laramie from rural Texas in Act 1?
(a) Zackie Salmon
(b) Matt Galloway
(c) Stephen Belber
(d) Catherine Connolly

8. The Waco siege began on February 28 of what year?
(a) 1982
(b) 1993
(c) 1996
(d) 1988

9. 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) 26,687
(b) 15,231
(c) 75,933
(d) 39,429

10. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s mother?
(a) Anna Shepard
(b) Mary Shepard
(c) Martha Shepard
(d) Judy Shepard

11. 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) Social
(b) Educated
(c) Populated
(d) Wealthy

12. What is the name of the sect that had a standoff with the FBI and AFT in Waco, Texas?
(a) The Lord’s Children
(b) The Branch Davidians
(c) Al Qaeda
(d) The Divinity Project

13. In the staging notes, the author describes the set of The Laramie Project as what?
(a) A performance space
(b) A town square
(c) A medieval hut
(d) A church

14. Who led the Tectonic Theater Project’s group in Laramie as the head writer, according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Stephen Belber
(b) Greg Pierotti
(c) Leigh Fondakowski
(d) Stephen Wangh

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

Short Answer 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”?

2. In the essay by Bertolt Brecht discussed in the Introduction to The Laramie Project, the author describes a model based upon “an eyewitness demonstrating to a collection of people how” what took place?

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

4. According to the author in the costuming and staging notes, The Laramie Project should be an event driven by what?

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

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