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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who claims in Act 1, “But Wyoming, unless you’re a professional, well, the bulk of the people are working minimum-wage jobs”?
(a) Reverend Fred Phelps
(b) Lucy Thompson
(c) Romaine Patterson
(d) Alison Mears

3. Who wrote Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde?
(a) Moisés Kaufman
(b) Neil Simon
(c) Frank Galati
(d) Terrence McNally

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

5. What did the sign on the University Inn say when the Tectonic Theater Project members entered Laramie, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?
(a) Hate is not a Laramie value
(b) Laramie mourns
(c) God bless everyone
(d) Peace be with you

6. 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

7. In the staging notes, the author describes the set of The Laramie Project as what?
(a) A church
(b) A performance space
(c) A medieval hut
(d) A town square

8. 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) Truth work
(c) Reflection work
(d) Thought work

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

10. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?
(a) 1998
(b) 2001
(c) 1992
(d) 1995

11. Who says, “Stewardship is one thing all out ancestors taught us” in Act 1?
(a) Eileen Engen
(b) Bill McKinney
(c) Tiffany Edwards
(d) Dennis Shepard

12. 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) Fifth
(d) Third

13. 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) October 22, 2009
(c) December 29, 2007
(d) May 3, 2004

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

15. What is the name of the sect that had a standoff with the FBI and AFT in Waco, Texas?
(a) The Divinity Project
(b) The Branch Davidians
(c) The Lord’s Children
(d) Al Qaeda

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?

2. Who does Andy Paris interview in Act 1?

3. 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”?

4. Angels in America is a play by what playwright?

5. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?

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