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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?
(a) Laramie Holds the Range
(b) The Man from Laramie
(c) The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
(d) Matthew, Tell me about Heaven: A Firsthand Description of the Afterlife

2. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?
(a) Harry Woods
(b) Philip Dubois
(c) Greg Pierotti
(d) Matt Mickelson

3. In “Moment: The Essential Facts” in Act 2, the Newspaperperson states that who are being charged with the brutal beating of Matthew Shepard?
(a) Aaron James McKinney and Russell Arthur Henderson
(b) Philip Mitchell Dubois and Jim Robert Geringer
(c) Philip Mitchell Dubois and Aaron James McKinney
(d) Russell Arthur Henderson and Philip Mitchell Dubois

4. According to the author in the Introduction, when he and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, they did not know that they would devote how much time to the project?
(a) 11 months
(b) 4 years
(c) 5 months
(d) 2 years

5. What Laramie resident states in the play, “My secret hope was that they were from somewhere else, that then of course you can create that distance: We don’t grow children like that here. Well, it’s pretty clear that we do grow children like that here …”?
(a) Reggie Fluty
(b) Jeffrey Lockwood
(c) Greg Pierotti
(d) Rob DeBree

Short Answer Questions

1. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?

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

3. Moisés Kaufman claims in Act 1 that “Today Leigh tried to explain to me to no avail what” what was?

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

5. When did Bertolt Brecht die?

(see the answer key)

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