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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Who joined the writing team for Tectonic Theater Project’s production of The Laramie Project as “an associate writer and ‘bench coach’” according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Jon Peacock
(b) Greg Pierotti
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Stephen Wangh

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 Lord’s Children
(c) The Divinity Project
(d) The Branch Davidians

4. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?
(a) Matthew, Tell me about Heaven: A Firsthand Description of the Afterlife
(b) The Man from Laramie
(c) Laramie Holds the Range
(d) The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

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

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

7. Whose mother worked in a roundhouse, according to the narrative in Act 1?
(a) Matt Mickelson’s
(b) Amanda Gronich’s
(c) Marge Murray’s
(d) Dennis Shepard’s

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

9. The author of the Introduction to The Laramie Project writes: “There are moments in history when a particular event brings the various ideologies and beliefs prevailing in a culture into sharp focus. At these junctures event becomes a” what, of sorts?
(a) Eureka moment
(b) Train crash
(c) Super Bowl
(d) Lightning rod

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

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

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

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

14. What sect leader was killed in the Waco siege?
(a) David Koresh
(b) Robert Edwards
(c) Charles Manson
(d) Jim Jones

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James Byrd, Jr. die?

2. Where was Matthew Shepard beaten and raped during a high school trip, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks?

3. Who led the Tectonic Theater Project’s group in Laramie as the head writer, according to the Author’s Note?

4. 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”?

5. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s younger brother?

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