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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. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?
(a) The Guthrie Theater
(b) The Denver Center Theater
(c) The Actor’s Theater of San Francisco
(d) The Los Angeles Taper Forum

2. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) The Union Square Theatre
(b) The Al Hirschfield Theatre
(c) The St. James Theatre
(d) The Ethel Barrymore Theatre

3. What Laramie resident claims to have moved to Laramie from rural Texas in Act 1?
(a) Catherine Connolly
(b) Zackie Salmon
(c) Matt Galloway
(d) Stephen Belber

4. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?
(a) Germany
(b) Morocco
(c) India
(d) Spain

5. Who were the Tectonic Theater Project’s associate writers who led the group in Laramie, according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Stephen Belber and Greg Pierotti
(b) Stephen Belber and Jim Geringer
(c) Greg Pierotti and Leigh Fondakowski
(d) Leigh Fondakowski and Jon Peacock

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?

2. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?

3. Where does April Silva say she grew up in Act 1?

4. Who is described as the head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming in Act 1?

5. When was Oscar Wilde born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Marge Murray say about bias and prejudice within Laramie in Act 1?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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