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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s mother?
2. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?
3. Angels in America is a play by what playwright?
4. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the second?
5. The head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming states that she has found the people of Laramie to be nicer than those where that she used to teach?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the religious views in Laramie depicted in “Moment: The Word” in Act 1?
2. Who makes statements in “Moment: Finding Matthew Shepard”?
3. What is related in “Moment: The Fireside” in Act 1?
4. What was Moisés Kaufman’s objective in exploring themes in The Laramie Project?
5. What most recent works of Moisés Kaufman’s are described in the Introduction to The Laramie Project?
6. How did the research begin on The Laramie Project? What role did the members of the theater company play?
7. What did Moisés Kaufman hope to capture from the residents in Laramie, Wyoming?
8. How do the townspeople of Laramie describe Matthew Shepard in Act 1?
9. What awards has Moisés Kaufman won in the United States?
10. What do the residents of Laramie relate in “Moment: A Definition”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss AIDS, HIV, and “gay-panic” in the narrative. How is “gay-panic” used as a defense tactic in court? When did Reggie Fluty discover that Matthew Shepard was HIV positive? What was her reaction? What chance did Fluty have of contracting the disease?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the relationship between religion and prejudice in The Laramie Project. What impact do the ministers of the varying religious institutions in the town have on the residents? What message do these ministers relate regarding homosexuality?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the discovery, examination, and treatment of Matthew Shepard’s body. Who found him? What did he do upon discovering the body? Who first arrived at the scene? Where was Matthew transported? Why?
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