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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jedadiah Schultz says in Act 1 that his parents reacted how when he told them he would be doing a scene from Angels in America for a high school competition?
(a) They refused to attend
(b) They offered to pay for medical school
(c) They called their friends to attend
(d) They bought him a car

2. Who does Andy Paris interview in Act 1?
(a) Doug Laws
(b) Sherry Johnson
(c) Rebecca Hilliker
(d) Trish Steger

3. James Byrd, Jr. was murdered by three men who asserted to be what?
(a) Policemen
(b) College educated
(c) White supremacists
(d) Peace activists

4. In the course of the authors’ travels to Laramie, Wyoming, they conducted more than how many interviews according to the author of the Introduction?
(a) 75
(b) 200
(c) 35
(d) 120

5. In the staging notes, the author describes the set of The Laramie Project as what?
(a) A performance space
(b) A church
(c) A town square
(d) A medieval hut

Short Answer Questions

1. In Waco, Texas, a siege was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which lasted how many days?

2. What is the name of the sect that had a standoff with the FBI and AFT in Waco, Texas?

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

4. 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?

5. In what year was Matthew Shepard murdered?

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