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

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

3. The limousine driver in Act 1 claims, “They say that the Wyoming” what will “drive a man insane”?
(a) Snow
(b) Owls
(c) Trout
(d) Wind

4. Doc O’Connor claims that the trains that go by where he lives pass every how many minutes in Act 1?
(a) 35
(b) 13
(c) 22
(d) 58

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as a limousine driver in Act 1?

2. The Narrator states in the beginning of Act 1 that the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, on what date?

3. What question does Sergeant Hing say the reporter asked him, completely missing the point, in Act 1?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe Moisés Kaufman. How is he involved with the Tectonic Theater Project?

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

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

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