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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. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?
(a) The Los Angeles Taper Forum
(b) The Guthrie Theater
(c) The Denver Center Theater
(d) The Actor’s Theater of San Francisco

2. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the first?
(a) To expose political and religious viewpoints
(b) To examine the subject matter at hand
(c) To explore theatrical language and form
(d) To explain current events

3. In the essay by Bertolt Brecht discussed in the Introduction to The Laramie Project, the author describes a model based upon “an eyewitness demonstrating to a collection of people how” what took place?
(a) A traffic accident
(b) A murder
(c) A fire
(d) A rainbow

4. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?
(a) Religion and politics
(b) Drama and exaggeration
(c) Manners and politeness
(d) Realism and naturalism

5. It was in what month that the author and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to collect interviews?
(a) November
(b) September
(c) April
(d) May

Short Answer Questions

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

2. It was February of what year that Matthew Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip?

3. 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?

4. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?

5. When was Oscar Wilde born?

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