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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Narrator states in the beginning of Act 1 that the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, on what date?
(a) February 18, 1999
(b) May 11, 2000
(c) November 14, 1998
(d) July 4, 1997

2. According to the author in the Introduction, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?
(a) Newspapers and magazines
(b) Film and television
(c) Right and wrong
(d) Good and evil

3. Whose following quote is used in the introduction: “After all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free”?
(a) Henry David Thoreau’s
(b) John Keats’s
(c) Arthur Miller’s
(d) Walt Whitman’s

4. In the essay by Bertolt Brecht discussed in the Introduction to The Laramie Project, the author describes a model based upon “an eyewitness demonstrating to a collection of people how” what took place?
(a) A murder
(b) A fire
(c) A traffic accident
(d) A rainbow

5. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde deals with Oscar Wilde's three trials on the matter of his relationship with whom?
(a) Jim Geringer
(b) Lord Alfred Douglas
(c) Russell Henderson
(d) Reverend Fred Phelps

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

2. At what university did Matthew Shepard study?

3. According to Doc O’Connor in Act 1, the trains used to carry cattle but now all they carry is what?

4. Who developed the original music for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

5. Where was Matthew Shepard beaten and raped during a high school trip, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is related in “Moment: The Fireside” in Act 1?

2. How does Moisés Kaufman’s homeland view his works?

3. What does Moisés Kaufman say about the role of theater and its structure in the Introduction?

4. When was The Laramie Project adapted to film? Where was it first presented?

5. Who makes statements in “Moment: Finding Matthew Shepard”?

6. What is the text of The Laramie Project based upon the transcripts of?

7. What does Doc O’Connor remark about the gay population in Laramie in Act 1?

8. How are the religious views in Laramie depicted in “Moment: The Word” in Act 1?

9. When in “Moment: A Definition” does the tone of Act 1 begin to change? How?

10. Where was Moisés Kaufman from? When did he enter the theater?

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