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

2. In Waco, Texas, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which lasted how many days?
(a) 12
(b) 28
(c) 50
(d) 5

3. According to the author in the Introduction, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?
(a) Film and television
(b) Right and wrong
(c) Good and evil
(d) Newspapers and magazines

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

5. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?
(a) 1995
(b) 1991
(c) 1983
(d) 1988

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Matthew Shepard born?

2. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s younger brother?

3. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that all the towns of southern Wyoming are laid out and spaced because of what coming through?

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

5. Who wrote Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Act 1 of The Laramie Project begin? How is this “scene” defined?

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

6. What is related in “Moment: A Scarf” in Act 1?

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

8. How did the research begin on The Laramie Project? What role did the members of the theater company play?

9. How does Moisés Kaufman’s homeland view his works?

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

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