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

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

3. 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) Truth work
(d) Thought work

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

5. When was Oscar Wilde born?
(a) 1897
(b) 1829
(c) 1854
(d) 1912

Short Answer Questions

1. Who designed the original set for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

2. What did the sign on the University Inn say when the Tectonic Theater Project members entered Laramie, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?

3. In the Waco siege, a fire destroyed the compound when a second assault was launched, killing how many people?

4. Jedadiah Schultz says in Act 1 that his parents reacted how when he told them he would be doing a scene from Angels in America for a high school competition?

5. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was Moisés Kaufman’s objective in exploring themes in The Laramie Project?

8. When and where did The Laramie Project premiere?

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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