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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. Doc O’Connor claims that the trains that go by where he lives pass every how many minutes in Act 1?
(a) 58
(b) 22
(c) 13
(d) 35

2. What question does Sergeant Hing say the reporter asked him, completely missing the point, in Act 1?
(a) How cold does it get here?
(b) Are there bears out here?
(c) What’s the population of Laramie?
(d) Who in the hell would want to run out here?

3. When was Bertolt Brecht born?
(a) 1854
(b) 1933
(c) 1948
(d) 1898

4. Greg Pierotti claims in “Moment: Journal Entries” of Act 1, that he swore he heard what the moment he crossed the Wyoming border?
(a) Howling wolves
(b) A herd of buffalo
(c) Hooting owls
(d) Screaming cowboys

5. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) 75
(b) 200
(c) 35
(d) 120

Short Answer Questions

1. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?

2. Whose mother worked in a roundhouse, according to the narrative in Act 1?

3. What does Barbara Pitts say the first thing to welcome them was when they arrived in Laramie in Act 1?

4. The limousine driver in Act 1 claims, “They say that the Wyoming” what will “drive a man insane”?

5. According to Doc O’Connor in Act 1, the trains used to carry cattle but now all they carry is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the text of The Laramie Project based upon the transcripts of?

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

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

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

5. What is related in “Moment: The Fireside” in Act 1?

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

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

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

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

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

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