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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Rebecca Hilliker
(c) Amanda Gronich
(d) Matt Galloway

2. What is the name of Romaine Patterson’s sister in The Laramie Project?
(a) Lucy Thompson
(b) Trish Steger
(c) Barbara Pitts
(d) Tiffany Edwards

3. In “Moment: Jury Selection” of Act 3, who claims, “As soon as they started jury selection, you know, everybody was coming into my shop with ‘I don’t want to be on this trial’”?
(a) Trish Steger
(b) Harry Woods
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Jon Peacock

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?
(a) The counterculture
(b) The gay lifestyle
(c) Justice
(d) Innocence

5. Where was the trial of Russell Henderson held?
(a) The Sweetwater County Courthouse
(b) The Albany County Courthouse
(c) The Big Horn County Courthouse
(d) The Hot Springs County Courthouse

6. Sergeant Hing claims that the Laramie Police had apprehended the suspects in Matthew Shepard’s beating and murder in less than how much time in Act 2?
(a) 3 weeks
(b) 4 days
(c) 12 hours
(d) 1 day

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

8. Who was the judge that presided over the case of the State of Wyoming versus Aaron James McKinney?
(a) The Honorable Barton R. Voigt
(b) The Honorable Daniel R. Hughes
(c) The Honorable Jacob F. Benson
(d) The Honorable Frank T. Robinson

9. What verdict did the jury reach in the case of Aaron McKinney for the charge of kidnapping?
(a) Innocent by reason of insanity
(b) Not guilty
(c) The charge was dismissed
(d) Guilty

10. 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) Biology and engineering
(b) French history and astronomy
(c) Communications and political science
(d) Physics and sociology

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

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

13. Who is the leader of the Mormon Church in Laramie in The Laramie Project?
(a) Reverend Fred Phelps
(b) Father Roger Schmit
(c) Dr. Cantway
(d) Doug Laws

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

15. What verdict did the jury reach in the case of Aaron McKinney for the charge of aggravated robbery?
(a) Not guilty by reason of insanity
(b) Mistrial
(c) Not guilty
(d) Guilty

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Moment: Angels in America” of Act 3, the Narrator states that who is producing Angels in America this year?

2. Rulon Stacey states in “Moment: Medical Update” in Act 2 that Matthew Shepard’s major injuries upon arrival at the hospital consisted of a skull fracture and what?

3. What is the title of Moisés Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s later one-acts?

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

5. What was the term that was used to refer to the individuals who dressed as angels and assembled around the Westboro Baptist Church protesters at the trial of Russell Henderson?

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