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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. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the second?
(a) To examine the subject matter at hand
(b) To explain current events
(c) To explore theatrical language and form
(d) To expose political and religious viewpoints

2. According to the author in the Introduction, when he and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, they did not know that they would devote how much time to the project?
(a) 2 years
(b) 5 months
(c) 4 years
(d) 11 months

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

4. Who developed the original music for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?
(a) Stephen Belber
(b) Doug Laws
(c) Harry Woods
(d) Peter Golub

5. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?
(a) 1900
(b) 1951
(c) 1974
(d) 1935

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?

2. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?

3. In what year was Matthew Shepard born?

4. Greg Pierotti claims in “Moment: Journal Entries” of Act 1, that he swore he heard what the moment he crossed the Wyoming border?

5. What sect leader was killed in the Waco siege?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was Matthew Shepard discovered? Where was he taken?

3. How do the townspeople of Laramie describe Matthew Shepard in Act 1?

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

5. What did Moisés Kaufman hope to capture from the residents in Laramie, Wyoming?

6. How does Act 1 of The Laramie Project begin? How is this “scene” defined?

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

8. What is related in “Moment: A Scarf” in Act 1?

9. What most recent works of Moisés Kaufman’s are described in the Introduction to The Laramie Project?

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

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