View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jedadiah Schultz says in Act 1 that his parents reacted how when he told them he would be doing a scene from Angels in America for a high school competition?
(a) They bought him a car
(b) They offered to pay for medical school
(c) They refused to attend
(d) They called their friends to attend

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”?
(a) John Keats’s
(b) Arthur Miller’s
(c) Walt Whitman’s
(d) Henry David Thoreau’s

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

4. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) 200
(b) 120
(c) 75
(d) 35

5. How many weeks after the murder of Matthew Shepard did the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project travel to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 0
(d) 1

6. 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 explore theatrical language and form
(b) To examine the subject matter at hand
(c) To expose political and religious viewpoints
(d) To explain current events

7. 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?
(a) A fire
(b) A traffic accident
(c) A murder
(d) A rainbow

8. Where was Matthew Shepard beaten and raped during a high school trip, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks?
(a) Mexico
(b) Germany
(c) Vietnam
(d) Morocco

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

10. 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) April
(c) September
(d) May

11. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?
(a) 1951
(b) 1935
(c) 1974
(d) 1900

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

13. 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 railroad
(d) The weather

14. The limousine driver in Act 1 claims, “They say that the Wyoming” what will “drive a man insane”?
(a) Wind
(b) Snow
(c) Owls
(d) Trout

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Sergeant Hing say the reporter asked him, completely missing the point, in Act 1?

2. Where does the Narrator say Doc O’Connor lives in Act 1?

3. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?

4. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?

5. What is Matthew Shepard’s father’s name?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 523 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample