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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 refused to attend
(b) They offered to pay for medical school
(c) They called their friends to attend
(d) They bought him a car

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

3. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?
(a) India
(b) Morocco
(c) Germany
(d) Spain

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

5. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?
(a) June 16, 2001
(b) May 3, 2004
(c) October 22, 2009
(d) December 29, 2007

6. When was Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde published?
(a) 1992
(b) 1985
(c) 1983
(d) 1997

7. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?
(a) Dadaism
(b) Theater of the Absurd
(c) Naturalism
(d) Epic theater

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

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

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

11. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?
(a) Engineering
(b) English literature
(c) Mathematics
(d) Political science

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

13. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?
(a) The Los Angeles Taper Forum
(b) The Actor’s Theater of San Francisco
(c) The Denver Center Theater
(d) The Guthrie Theater

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

15. Greg Pierotti claims in “Moment: Journal Entries” of Act 1, that he swore he heard what the moment he crossed the Wyoming border?
(a) A herd of buffalo
(b) Howling wolves
(c) Hooting owls
(d) Screaming cowboys

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, “Stewardship is one thing all out ancestors taught us” in Act 1?

2. 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?

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

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?

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

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