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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Moment: The Essential Facts” in Act 2, the Newspaperperson states that who are being charged with the brutal beating of Matthew Shepard?
(a) Philip Mitchell Dubois and Aaron James McKinney
(b) Aaron James McKinney and Russell Arthur Henderson
(c) Philip Mitchell Dubois and Jim Robert Geringer
(d) Russell Arthur Henderson and Philip Mitchell Dubois

2. What two friends of Aaron McKinney does Stephen Belber describe meeting in Act 2?
(a) Shannon and Jen
(b) Rebecca and Laura
(c) Karen and Katie
(d) Melissa and Samantha

3. Who is described in the play as the first police officer on the scene when Matthew Shepard’s body was discovered?
(a) Reggie Fluty
(b) Philip Dubois
(c) Aaron McKinney
(d) Marge Murray

4. What resident of Laramie states that “As a lesbian I was more concerned for my safety” in “Moment: Live and Let Live” of Act 2?
(a) Marge Murray
(b) Rebecca Hilliker
(c) Zackie Salmon
(d) Lucy Thompson

5. What is repeated by several of the play’s characters as being the unsaid motto of the people of Laramie?
(a) Freedom for all
(b) Don’t judge
(c) Love everybody
(d) Live and let live

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

7. The Reverend Fred Phelps claims in Act 3 that “God’s _____ is pure.”
(a) Forgiveness
(b) Intuition
(c) Hatred
(d) Love

8. Russell Henderson’s Mormon Home Teacher claims to have known Russell for how many years in “Moment: Russell Henderson” of Act 3?
(a) 25
(b) 21
(c) 14
(d) 35

9. Who claims in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” of Act 2, “Ultimately, no matter how you dice it, I did have an opportunity”?
(a) Rob DeBree
(b) Matt Galloway
(c) Dennis Shepard
(d) Harry Woods

10. Who says in “Moment: Departure” of Act 3, “And I will speak with you, I will trust that if you write a play of this, that you say it right. You need to do your best to say it correct”?
(a) Jon Peacock
(b) Reverend Fred Phelps
(c) Sherry Aanenson
(d) Father Roger Schmit

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) Marge Murray
(b) Romaine Patterson
(c) Rob DeBree
(d) Harry Woods

12. Romaine Patterson claims in “Moment: Epilogue” of Act 3 that in the past year she has changed her major and will be studying what?
(a) French history and astronomy
(b) Biology and engineering
(c) Communications and political science
(d) Physics and sociology

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

14. According to the Narrator in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” in Act 2, both of the murder suspects pled how to the charges against them?
(a) Guilty
(b) Not guilty by reason of insanity
(c) The Fifth Amendment
(d) Not guilty

15. Who was the bartender at the Fireside Bar on the night that Matthew Shepard was killed?
(a) Russell Henderson
(b) Andy Paris
(c) Matt Galloway
(d) Aaron Kreifels

Short Answer Questions

1. What verdict did the jury reach in the case of Aaron McKinney for the charge of kidnapping?

2. The first police officer who arrived on the scene and attempted to save Matthew Shepard states that she had been building a lean-to for what animals, causing open cuts on her hands in Act 2?

3. Where was the trial of Russell Henderson held?

4. 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?

5. Who discovered the body of Matthew Shepard?

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