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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 Doc O’Connor in Act 1, the trains used to carry cattle but now all they carry is what?
(a) Grain and milk
(b) Chemicals and metal
(c) Coal and lumber
(d) Diapers and cars

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

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

4. What did the Welcome to Laramie sign say the population was when the Tectonic Theater Project members arrived, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?
(a) 39,429
(b) 15,231
(c) 75,933
(d) 26,687

5. In what year was Matthew Shepard born?
(a) 1971
(b) 1982
(c) 1976
(d) 1991

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?

2. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?

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

4. What is Matthew Shepard’s father’s name?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When in “Moment: A Definition” does the tone of Act 1 begin to change? How?

4. When and where did The Laramie Project premiere?

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

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

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

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

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

10. When was The Laramie Project adapted to film? Where was it first presented?

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