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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who submits a statement to the court as the grandmother of Russell Henderson in “Moment: Russell Henderson” of Act 3?
(a) Sherry Johnson
(b) Barbara Pitts
(c) Lucy Thompson
(d) Romaine Patterson

3. In “Moment: Aaron McKinney” of Act 3, who is played in a tape recording questioning Aaron McKinney?
(a) Father Roger Schmit
(b) Jim Geringer
(c) Sergeant Rob DeBree
(d) Greg Pierotti

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

5. What does the ADL stand for?
(a) Anti-Defamation League
(b) American Defense League
(c) Automatic Denial Litigation
(d) American Domestic Lawyers

6. Who is described as a “first-term Republican up for reelection” in Act 2?
(a) Jim Geringer
(b) Jedadiah Schultz
(c) Reverend Fred Phelps
(d) Doug Laws

7. Where was the Reverend Fred Phelps born?
(a) Bangor, Maine
(b) Oakland, California
(c) Seattle, Washington
(d) Meridian, Mississippi

8. What Laramie resident states in Act 2 that he believes the gay community took “this as an advantage, said this is a good time for us to exploit this”?
(a) Gil Engen
(b) Father Roger Schmit
(c) Reverend Fred Phelps
(d) Russell Henderson

9. 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?
(a) Chickens
(b) Llamas
(c) Cows
(d) Sheep

10. Who is described as the chief investigating officer in the case of Matthew Shepard’s murder in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” of Act 2?
(a) Detective Rob DeBree
(b) Commander Thomas Rodgers
(c) Sergeant Mark Thompson
(d) Chief Maxwell Southerland

11. 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) Reggie Fluty
(b) Greg Pierotti
(c) Jeffrey Lockwood
(d) Rob DeBree

12. The Wyoming governor in Act 2 states, “I would like to urge the people of Wyoming against overreacting in a way that gives one group” what?
(a) Special rights over others
(b) Enforcement abilities
(c) Religious authority
(d) Absolute power

13. 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) Sherry Aanenson
(b) Reverend Fred Phelps
(c) Jon Peacock
(d) Father Roger Schmit

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claims in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” of Act 2, “Ultimately, no matter how you dice it, I did have an opportunity”?

2. Who says in “Moment: Epilogue” of Act 3, “On our last trip, I had the good fortune of seeing Jedadiah Schultz play the role of Prior in Angels in America”?

3. In “Moment: Russell Henderson” of Act 3, how does Russell Henderson change his plea?

4. Who is the recipient of the email in “Moment: E-Mail” in Act 2?

5. Who is described as Matthew Shepard’s academic adviser in Act 2?

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