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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did the United States Congress pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act?
(a) June 16, 2001
(b) October 22, 2009
(c) December 29, 2007
(d) May 3, 2004

2. Who is described as being the president of the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Catherine Connolly
(b) Rob DeBree
(c) Philip Dubois
(d) Amanda Gronich

3. Greg Pierotti claims in “Moment: Journal Entries” of Act 1, that he swore he heard what the moment he crossed the Wyoming border?
(a) Howling wolves
(b) Hooting owls
(c) Screaming cowboys
(d) A herd of buffalo

4. Who in Act 1 says, “It’s hard to talk about Laramie now, to tell you what Laramie is, for us”?
(a) Doc O'Connor
(b) Aaron Kreifels
(c) Matt Galloway
(d) Jedadiah Schultz

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

6. 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 explain current events
(b) To examine the subject matter at hand
(c) To expose political and religious viewpoints
(d) To explore theatrical language and form

7. Whose following quote is used in the introduction: “After all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free”?
(a) Walt Whitman’s
(b) John Keats’s
(c) Henry David Thoreau’s
(d) Arthur Miller’s

8. What did the Welcome to Laramie sign say the population was when the Tectonic Theater Project members arrived, according to Barbara Pitts in Act 1?
(a) 39,429
(b) 26,687
(c) 75,933
(d) 15,231

9. When did James Byrd, Jr. die?
(a) 1998
(b) 1962
(c) 1978
(d) 1983

10. What is Matthew Shepard’s father’s name?
(a) Roger Shepard
(b) Dennis Shepard
(c) Mark Shepard
(d) James Shepard

11. The president of the University of Wyoming states that he lets his children play out at night until what time in Act 1?
(a) 8:30 p.m.
(b) 11 p.m.
(c) 1 a.m.
(d) 9 p.m.

12. 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

13. Who joined the writing team for Tectonic Theater Project’s production of The Laramie Project as “an associate writer and ‘bench coach’” according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Sherry Johnson
(b) Greg Pierotti
(c) Stephen Wangh
(d) Jon Peacock

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

15. At what university did Matthew Shepard study?
(a) The University of Colorado
(b) The University of Wyoming
(c) The University of Montana
(d) The University of Alaska

Short Answer 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?

2. In the author’s note about the text, he claims that “When writing this play, we used a technique I developed called” what?

3. Who claims in Act 1, “But Wyoming, unless you’re a professional, well, the bulk of the people are working minimum-wage jobs”?

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, we live in an age when what mediums are “constantly redefining and refining their tools”?

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