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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s mother?
(a) Judy Shepard
(b) Anna Shepard
(c) Martha Shepard
(d) Mary Shepard

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

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

4. Moisés Kaufman claims in Act 1 that “Today Leigh tried to explain to me to no avail what” what was?
(a) Elk burgers
(b) Chicken fried steak
(c) Jumbo shrimp
(d) Fried ice cream

5. In what year was The Laramie Project first performed in Laramie, Wyoming, according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) 2003
(b) 2000
(c) 2007
(d) 1999

Short Answer Questions

1. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that Wyoming is one of the largest states in the country and the least what?

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

3. Bertolt Brecht was a part of a theatrical movement called what?

4. Who in Act 1 says, “It’s hard to talk about Laramie now, to tell you what Laramie is, for us”?

5. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

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