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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 Wyoming is one of the largest states in the country and the least what?
(a) Populated
(b) Social
(c) Educated
(d) Wealthy

2. The Waco siege began on February 28 of what year?
(a) 1993
(b) 1988
(c) 1996
(d) 1982

3. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?
(a) Manners and politeness
(b) Drama and exaggeration
(c) Realism and naturalism
(d) Religion and politics

4. At what university did Matthew Shepard study?
(a) The University of Wyoming
(b) The University of Alaska
(c) The University of Montana
(d) The University of Colorado

5. Where was Matthew Shepard beaten and raped during a high school trip, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks?
(a) Vietnam
(b) Morocco
(c) Germany
(d) Mexico

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was James Byrd, Jr. murdered?

2. Whose following quote is used in the introduction: “After all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free”?

3. Who says, “Stewardship is one thing all out ancestors taught us” in Act 1?

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. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?

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

4. When and where did The Laramie Project premiere?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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