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

2. When was James Byrd, Jr. born?
(a) 1933
(b) 1920
(c) 1949
(d) 1904

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

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

5. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?
(a) 1983
(b) 1988
(c) 1991
(d) 1995

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

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

8. In what year was The Laramie Project first performed in Laramie, Wyoming, according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) 1999
(b) 2007
(c) 2003
(d) 2000

9. 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) 5 months
(b) 11 months
(c) 4 years
(d) 2 years

10. Who does Andy Paris interview in Act 1?
(a) Sherry Johnson
(b) Trish Steger
(c) Rebecca Hilliker
(d) Doug Laws

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

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

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

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

15. 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) Walt Whitman’s
(b) John Keats’s
(c) Henry David Thoreau’s
(d) Arthur Miller’s

Short Answer Questions

1. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?

2. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?

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

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

5. Angels in America is a play by what playwright?

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