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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. According to the author in the costuming and staging notes, The Laramie Project should be an event driven by what?
(a) Lighting
(b) Scenery
(c) Acting
(d) Costumes

2. Who wrote Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde?
(a) Frank Galati
(b) Terrence McNally
(c) Neil Simon
(d) Moisés Kaufman

3. Who joined the writing team for Tectonic Theater Project’s production of The Laramie Project as “an associate writer and ‘bench coach’” according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Jon Peacock
(b) Stephen Wangh
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Greg Pierotti

4. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) May
(b) November
(c) April
(d) September

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) 8:30 p.m.
(c) 1 a.m.
(d) 9 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the first?

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?

3. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?

4. Who developed the original music for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?

5. Moisés Kaufman claims in Act 1 that “Today Leigh tried to explain to me to no avail what” what was?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Doc O’Connor remark about the gay population in Laramie in Act 1?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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