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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Author’s Note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author of the Introduction to The Laramie Project writes: “There are moments in history when a particular event brings the various ideologies and beliefs prevailing in a culture into sharp focus. At these junctures event becomes a” what, of sorts?
(a) Eureka moment
(b) Super Bowl
(c) Lightning rod
(d) Train crash

2. How many weeks after the murder of Matthew Shepard did the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project travel to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 4
(d) 2

3. When did Bertolt Brecht die?
(a) 1916
(b) 1933
(c) 1997
(d) 1956

4. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?
(a) 1995
(b) 1988
(c) 1983
(d) 1991

5. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde deals with Oscar Wilde's three trials on the matter of his relationship with whom?
(a) Lord Alfred Douglas
(b) Reverend Fred Phelps
(c) Jim Geringer
(d) Russell Henderson

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Matthew Shepard choose to major in at college?

2. At what university did Matthew Shepard study?

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

4. Where was Matthew Shepard beaten and raped during a high school trip, causing him to experience depression and panic attacks?

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

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