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

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

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

5. In what year did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) 1998
(b) 2009
(c) 2000
(d) 2004

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

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

8. 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) Film and television
(c) Right and wrong
(d) Good and evil

9. The president of the University of Wyoming states that he lets his children play out at night until what time in Act 1?
(a) 1 a.m.
(b) 9 p.m.
(c) 11 p.m.
(d) 8:30 p.m.

10. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?
(a) 1954
(b) 1947
(c) 1966
(d) 1938

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

12. What does Barbara Pitts say the first thing to welcome them was when they arrived in Laramie in Act 1?
(a) Wal-Mart
(b) A Ferrari dealership
(c) A rodeo
(d) A protest

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

14. 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) Laramie Holds the Range
(c) The Man from Laramie
(d) The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

15. The Narrator states in the beginning of Act 1 that the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, on what date?
(a) February 18, 1999
(b) November 14, 1998
(c) July 4, 1997
(d) May 11, 2000

Short Answer Questions

1. The head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming states that she has found the people of Laramie to be nicer than those where that she used to teach?

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

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

4. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?

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

(see the answer keys)

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