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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 the author’s note about the text, he claims that “When writing this play, we used a technique I developed called” what?
(a) Reflection work
(b) Moment work
(c) Thought work
(d) Truth work

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?
(a) 120
(b) 200
(c) 75
(d) 35

3. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?
(a) Matthew, Tell me about Heaven: A Firsthand Description of the Afterlife
(b) The Man from Laramie
(c) The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
(d) Laramie Holds the Range

4. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?
(a) Political science
(b) English literature
(c) Engineering
(d) Mathematics

5. Who does Andy Paris interview in Act 1?
(a) Sherry Johnson
(b) Doug Laws
(c) Trish Steger
(d) Rebecca Hilliker

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde published?

2. The president of the University of Wyoming states that he lets his children play out at night until what time in Act 1?

3. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that Wyoming is one of the largest states in the country and the least what?

4. Where does the Narrator say Doc O’Connor lives in Act 1?

5. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Rebecca Hilliker relate about her students in Act 1’s “Moment: Rebecca Hilliker”?

3. When and where did The Laramie Project premiere?

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

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

6. What awards has Moisés Kaufman won in the United States?

7. Where did Matthew Shepard die? Who was charged with his murder?

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

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

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

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