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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did the waitress Debbie introduce herself to at a local inn in Act 1?
(a) Leigh Fondakowski
(b) Matt Galloway
(c) Tiffany Edwards
(d) Matt Mickelson

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

4. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his grandparents moved to Laramie, Wyoming, when?
(a) Mid 1800s
(b) Early 1900s
(c) Late 1800s
(d) Mid 1700s

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) Reflection work
(b) Truth work
(c) Moment work
(d) Thought work

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

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

8. In the Waco siege, a fire destroyed the compound when a second assault was launched, killing how many people?
(a) 37
(b) 18
(c) 75
(d) 112

9. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the first?
(a) To examine the subject matter at hand
(b) To explore theatrical language and form
(c) To explain current events
(d) To expose political and religious viewpoints

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

11. At what university did Matthew Shepard study?
(a) The University of Montana
(b) The University of Alaska
(c) The University of Colorado
(d) The University of Wyoming

12. 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

13. What did the sign on the University Inn say when the Tectonic Theater Project members entered Laramie, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?
(a) God bless everyone
(b) Peace be with you
(c) Laramie mourns
(d) Hate is not a Laramie value

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

15. According to the author in the Introduction, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?
(a) Newspapers and magazines
(b) Right and wrong
(c) Film and television
(d) Good and evil

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. What did the sign at the Wyoming border say when the Tectonic Theater Project members first arrived, according to Greg Pierotti in Act 1?

4. Where does April Silva say she grew up in Act 1?

5. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?

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