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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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) Hooting owls
(c) Screaming cowboys
(d) Howling wolves

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

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

8. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Philip Dubois
(b) Rob DeBree
(c) Amanda Gronich
(d) Catherine Connolly

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

10. The limousine driver in Act 1 claims, “They say that the Wyoming” what will “drive a man insane”?
(a) Owls
(b) Trout
(c) Snow
(d) Wind

11. Who led the Tectonic Theater Project’s group in Laramie as the head writer, according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Stephen Belber
(b) Stephen Wangh
(c) Leigh Fondakowski
(d) Greg Pierotti

12. Who were the Tectonic Theater Project’s associate writers who led the group in Laramie, according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Stephen Belber and Jim Geringer
(b) Greg Pierotti and Leigh Fondakowski
(c) Stephen Belber and Greg Pierotti
(d) Leigh Fondakowski and Jon Peacock

13. 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) Alison Mears
(c) Lucy Thompson
(d) Romaine Patterson

14. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?
(a) Greg Pierotti
(b) Matt Mickelson
(c) Philip Dubois
(d) Harry Woods

15. According to the author in the Introduction, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?
(a) Good and evil
(b) Newspapers and magazines
(c) Right and wrong
(d) Film and television

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who designed the original set for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

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

5. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?

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