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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When did Bertolt Brecht die?
(a) 1916
(b) 1956
(c) 1933
(d) 1997

5. Who in Act 1 says, “It’s hard to talk about Laramie now, to tell you what Laramie is, for us”?
(a) Matt Galloway
(b) Aaron Kreifels
(c) Jedadiah Schultz
(d) Doc O'Connor

6. 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 explore theatrical language and form
(d) To examine the subject matter at hand

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

8. 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

9. What Brecht essay does the author discuss in the Introduction?
(a) The Epic Theater
(b) Guerrilla Theater
(c) The Street Scene
(d) Propaganda in Theater

10. 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?
(a) Populated
(b) Wealthy
(c) Educated
(d) Social

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

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

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

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) Stephen Wangh
(b) Jon Peacock
(c) Greg Pierotti
(d) Sherry Johnson

15. When was James Byrd, Jr. born?
(a) 1933
(b) 1920
(c) 1949
(d) 1904

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?

3. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?

4. Moisés Kaufman claims in Act 1 that “Today Leigh tried to explain to me to no avail what” what was?

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?

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