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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 11 months
(c) 5 months
(d) 2 years

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

4. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his family is what generation in Laramie, Wyoming?
(a) Second
(b) Third
(c) Fourth
(d) Fifth

5. Where does the Narrator say Doc O’Connor lives in Act 1?
(a) Cody
(b) Rock Springs
(c) Missoula
(d) Bossler

6. Moisés Kaufman claims in Act 1 that “Today Leigh tried to explain to me to no avail what” what was?
(a) Chicken fried steak
(b) Jumbo shrimp
(c) Fried ice cream
(d) Elk burgers

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

8. Angels in America is a play by what playwright?
(a) Nilo Cruz
(b) Scott McMorrow
(c) Tony Kushner
(d) Thornton Wilder

9. Who wrote Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde?
(a) Terrence McNally
(b) Moisés Kaufman
(c) Neil Simon
(d) Frank Galati

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

11. 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) 11 p.m.
(c) 1 a.m.
(d) 8:30 p.m.

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

13. 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—like no place on earth
(b) Wyoming—river fun in the mountain sun
(c) Wyoming—land of Yellowstone
(d) Wyoming—where buffalo outnumber people

14. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?
(a) October 22, 2009
(b) June 16, 2001
(c) December 29, 2007
(d) May 3, 2004

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Waco siege, a fire destroyed the compound when a second assault was launched, killing how many people?

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

3. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde deals with Oscar Wilde's three trials on the matter of his relationship with whom?

4. Where was Oscar Wilde born?

5. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?

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