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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Romaine Patterson discovered she is going to be honored by in “Moment: Epilogue” of Act 3?
(a) The Wyoming National Guard
(b) The White House
(c) The Anti-Defamation League
(d) The Laramie Police Department

2. The first police officer who arrived on the scene and attempted to save Matthew Shepard was informed a few days later that Matthew was positive for what?
(a) Cancer
(b) Bird Flu
(c) Drugs
(d) HIV

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

4. In “Moment: Vigils” of Act 2, the narrator states that how many people attended a vigil in Los Angeles for Matthew Shepard?
(a) 2,200
(b) 3,700
(c) 8,500
(d) 5,000

5. 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 Frank T. Robinson
(c) The Honorable Jacob F. Benson
(d) The Honorable Daniel R. Hughes

6. 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

7. According to the Narrator in Act 3, the trial of Russell Henderson was to be what type of trial?
(a) Involuntary manslaughter
(b) Aggravated assault
(c) Assault with a deadly weapon
(d) Capital murder

8. Where is the Westboro Baptist Church based?
(a) Topeka, Kansas
(b) St. Louis, Missouri
(c) Atlanta, Georgia
(d) Boston, Massachusetts

9. Zubaida Ula says in “Moment: A Death Penalty Case” of Act 3 that she knew Aaron McKinney in grade school and he was called what?
(a) A.J.
(b) M.K.
(c) A.K.
(d) A.D.

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

11. Who is described as Matthew Shepard’s academic adviser in Act 2?
(a) Matt Galloway
(b) Stephen Belber
(c) John Peacock
(d) Rebecca Hilliker

12. Leigh Fondakowski has been a member of Tectonic Theater Project since what year?
(a) 2001
(b) 1998
(c) 1995
(d) 2004

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

14. The Judge states in Act 2 that the officers of the Laramie Police Department observed what inside of the truck of the suspects that belonged to the victim?
(a) A credit card
(b) A hair comb
(c) A class ring
(d) A journal

15. In “Moment: The Gem City of the Plains” from Act 2, Newsperson 1 says that there are no more what per capita in Wyoming than there are in New York, Florida, or California?
(a) Murders
(b) Crime
(c) Gays
(d) Bigots

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Moment: A Death Penalty Case” of Act 3, the Narrator says that it had been how long since the day that Matthew Shepard died that the trial of Aaron James McKinney began?

2. 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?

3. Who was the owner of the Fireside Bar at the time that Matthew Shepard was killed?

4. In “Moment: Live and Let Live” of Act 2, who says “Well, it’s preached in schools that being gay is okay”?

5. According to the Narrator in “Moment: Seeing Matthew” in Act 2, both of the murder suspects pled how to the charges against them?

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