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

2. What is repeated by several of the play’s characters as being the unsaid motto of the people of Laramie?
(a) Don’t judge
(b) Freedom for all
(c) Love everybody
(d) Live and let live

3. The president of the University of Wyoming states that he lets his children play out at night until what time in Act 1?
(a) 1 a.m.
(b) 9 p.m.
(c) 8:30 p.m.
(d) 11 p.m.

4. Where does April Silva say she grew up in Act 1?
(a) Minot, North Dakota
(b) Boise, Idaho
(c) Cody, Wyoming
(d) Tacoma, Washington

5. Who was the CEO of the Poudre Valley Hospital at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder?
(a) Matt Galloway
(b) Harry Woods
(c) Rulon Stacey
(d) Doug Laws

Short Answer Questions

1. What Laramie resident states in Act 2 that he believes if this “had been a heterosexual these two boys decided to take out and rob, this never would have made national news”?

2. In the Waco siege, a fire destroyed the compound when a second assault was launched, killing how many people?

3. In what year was The Laramie Project first performed in Laramie, Wyoming, according to the author of the Introduction?

4. Who led the Tectonic Theater Project’s group in Laramie as the head writer, according to the Author’s Note?

5. What Laramie resident describes being recorded for Hard Copy in Act 2?

(see the answer key)

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