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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who describes the day of Matthew Shepard’s funeral in the beginning of “Moment: Snow” in Act 3?
(a) Aaron McKinney
(b) Stephen Belber
(c) Marge Murray
(d) Matt Galloway

2. Catherine Connolly states that the arraignment took place on what day of the week in Act 2?
(a) Monday
(b) Sunday
(c) Friday
(d) Thursday

3. Who was the girlfriend of Russell Henderson at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder?
(a) Tiffany Edwards
(b) Chastity Pasley
(c) Rebecca Hilliker
(d) Sherry Johnson

4. Who states in “Moment: A Death Penalty Case” of Act 3, “I don’t believe that one person should be killed as redemption for his having killed another. Two wrongs don’t make a right.”?
(a) Reverend Fred Phelps
(b) Father Roger Schmit
(c) Matt Galloway
(d) Dr. Cantway

5. Who says, “So when they used “gay panic” as their defense, I felt, this is good, if nothing else the truth is going to be told … the truth is coming out” in “Moment: Gay Panic” of Act 3?
(a) Jedadiah Schultz
(b) Matt Galloway
(c) Amanda Gronich
(d) Rebecca Hilliker

6. Who was the CEO of the Poudre Valley Hospital at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder?
(a) Doug Laws
(b) Rulon Stacey
(c) Harry Woods
(d) Matt Galloway

7. For what newspaper does Kerry Drake report in The Laramie Project?
(a) The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
(b) The Jackson Hole News
(c) The Casper Star-Tribune
(d) The Laramie Boomerang

8. Who was the owner of the Fireside Bar at the time that Matthew Shepard was killed?
(a) Jon Peacock
(b) Russell Henderson
(c) Harry Woods
(d) Matt Mickelson

9. What local reporter refers to the influx of journalists as predators in Act 2?
(a) Tiffany Edwards
(b) Matt Mickelson
(c) Leigh Fondakowski
(d) Greg Pierotti

10. Rulon Stacey states in “Moment: Medical Update” in Act 2 that Matthew Shepard was admitted to the hospital in critical condition at approximately what time?
(a) 7:50 p.m.
(b) 11:12 p.m.
(c) 3:39 a.m.
(d) 9:15 p.m.

11. Who decided to organize a group of individuals to assemble around the Westboro Baptist Church protesters dressed as angels at the trial of Russell Henderson?
(a) Romaine Patterson
(b) Marge Murray
(c) Rob DeBree
(d) Harry Woods

12. Who states in “Moment: A Death Penalty Case” of Act 3, “Oh, I believe in the death penalty one hundred percent. You know, because I want to make sure that guy’s ass dies. This is one instance where I truly believe with all my heart an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”?
(a) Matt Mickelson
(b) Father Roger Schmit
(c) Andy Paris
(d) Zackie Salmon

13. What Laramie resident states in the play, “My secret hope was that they were from somewhere else, that then of course you can create that distance: We don’t grow children like that here. Well, it’s pretty clear that we do grow children like that here …”?
(a) Greg Pierotti
(b) Reggie Fluty
(c) Rob DeBree
(d) Jeffrey Lockwood

14. According to Catherine Connolly in Act 2, the arraignment lasted how long?
(a) 20 minutes
(b) 5 minutes
(c) 6 hours
(d) 2 hours

15. Who discovered the body of Matthew Shepard?
(a) Jon Peacock
(b) Aaron Kreifels
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Lucy Thompson

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act 3, the Reverend Fred Phelps claims that “the fags are bringing us out here trying to make Matthew Shepard into a poster boy for” what?

2. Where is the Westboro Baptist Church based?

3. Who was the girlfriend of Aaron McKinney at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder?

4. Russell Henderson’s Mormon Home Teacher claims to have known Russell’s family for how long in “Moment: Russell Henderson” of Act 3?

5. In “Moment: The Essential Facts” in Act 2, the Newspaperperson states that who are being charged with the brutal beating of Matthew Shepard?

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