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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Doc O’Connor in Act 1, the trains used to carry cattle but now all they carry is what?
(a) Grain and milk
(b) Coal and lumber
(c) Chemicals and metal
(d) Diapers and cars

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

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

5. When was Bertolt Brecht born?
(a) 1933
(b) 1854
(c) 1898
(d) 1948

6. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) September
(b) November
(c) May
(d) April

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

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

9. In the author’s note about the text, he claims that “When writing this play, we used a technique I developed called” what?
(a) Moment work
(b) Thought work
(c) Reflection work
(d) Truth work

10. 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 murder
(b) A rainbow
(c) A traffic accident
(d) A fire

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

12. According to the author in the costuming and staging notes, The Laramie Project should be an event driven by what?
(a) Scenery
(b) Acting
(c) Costumes
(d) Lighting

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

14. 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) Stephen Wangh
(c) Greg Pierotti
(d) Sherry Johnson

15. 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?
(a) Hawaii
(b) Canada
(c) The East Coast
(d) The Midwest

Short Answer Questions

1. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his family is what generation in Laramie, Wyoming?

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. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?

4. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?

5. Who did the waitress Debbie introduce herself to at a local inn in Act 1?

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