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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Romaine Patterson’s sister in The Laramie Project?
(a) Barbara Pitts
(b) Tiffany Edwards
(c) Trish Steger
(d) Lucy Thompson

2. 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) 4 years
(b) 2 years
(c) 11 months
(d) 5 months

3. What sect leader was killed in the Waco siege?
(a) Robert Edwards
(b) Jim Jones
(c) David Koresh
(d) Charles Manson

4. In Act 3, the Reverend Fred Phelps claims that “the fags are bringing us out here trying to make Matthew Shepard into a poster boy for” what?
(a) The counterculture
(b) Justice
(c) Innocence
(d) The gay lifestyle

5. The Judge states in Act 2 that the officers of the Laramie Police Department observed what inside of the truck of the suspects that belonged to the victim?
(a) A class ring
(b) A journal
(c) A credit card
(d) A hair comb

Short Answer Questions

1. The Wyoming governor in Act 2 states, “I would like to urge the people of Wyoming against overreacting in a way that gives one group” what?

2. Who was the bartender at the Fireside Bar on the night that Matthew Shepard was killed?

3. Who was the girlfriend of Russell Henderson at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder?

4. 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 …”?

5. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?

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