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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Andy Paris interview in Act 1?
(a) Trish Steger
(b) Doug Laws
(c) Rebecca Hilliker
(d) Sherry Johnson

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

5. 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

6. 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) Henry David Thoreau’s
(b) Arthur Miller’s
(c) John Keats’s
(d) Walt Whitman’s

7. Where does April Silva say she grew up in Act 1?
(a) Tacoma, Washington
(b) Minot, North Dakota
(c) Boise, Idaho
(d) Cody, Wyoming

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

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

10. Who is described as the head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Bill McKinney
(b) Rebecca Hilliker
(c) Philip Dubois
(d) Marge Murray

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

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

13. Who designed the original set for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?
(a) Sherry Johnson
(b) Andy Paris
(c) Robert Brill
(d) Doug Laws

14. 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 railroad
(b) The weather
(c) Buffalo
(d) The Pony Express

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James Byrd, Jr. was murdered by three men who asserted to be what?

2. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that Wyoming is one of the largest states in the country and the least what?

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

4. The Narrator states in the beginning of Act 1 that the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, on what date?

5. 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?

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