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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. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that his family is what generation in Laramie, Wyoming?
(a) Second
(b) Fifth
(c) Fourth
(d) Third

2. The president of the University of Wyoming states that he lets his children play out at night until what time in Act 1?
(a) 8:30 p.m.
(b) 1 a.m.
(c) 11 p.m.
(d) 9 p.m.

3. What question does Sergeant Hing say the reporter asked him, completely missing the point, in Act 1?
(a) Are there bears out here?
(b) How cold does it get here?
(c) What’s the population of Laramie?
(d) Who in the hell would want to run out here?

4. Who joined the writing team for Tectonic Theater Project’s production of The Laramie Project as “an associate writer and ‘bench coach’” according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Jon Peacock
(b) Stephen Wangh
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Greg Pierotti

5. According to Doc O’Connor in Act 1, the trains used to carry cattle but now all they carry is what?
(a) Coal and lumber
(b) Chemicals and metal
(c) Grain and milk
(d) Diapers and cars

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the Tectonic Theater Project’s associate writers who led the group in Laramie, according to the Author’s Note?

2. Where was Matthew Shepard born?

3. In the staging notes, the author describes the set of The Laramie Project as what?

4. According to the author in the Author’s Note, during the development of the play, the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie how many times to conduct interviews?

5. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that all the towns of southern Wyoming are laid out and spaced because of what coming through?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and where did The Laramie Project premiere?

2. What do the residents of Laramie relate in “Moment: A Definition”?

3. Who speaks in the introduction to Act 1? What is established in this opening?

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

5. What structural purpose do Kaufman’s “moments” have in the play?

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

7. What does Jedadiah Schultz relate about the play Angels in America in Act 1?

8. How did the research begin on The Laramie Project? What role did the members of the theater company play?

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

10. Who is the first person introduced in Act 1 that knew Matthew Shepard?

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