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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the sect that had a standoff with the FBI and AFT in Waco, Texas?
(a) Al Qaeda
(b) The Divinity Project
(c) The Branch Davidians
(d) The Lord’s Children

3. 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) 15,231
(b) 26,687
(c) 39,429
(d) 75,933

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

5. Doc O’Connor claims that the trains that go by where he lives pass every how many minutes in Act 1?
(a) 35
(b) 13
(c) 22
(d) 58

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

7. What sect leader was killed in the Waco siege?
(a) David Koresh
(b) Jim Jones
(c) Charles Manson
(d) Robert Edwards

8. In the Waco siege, a fire destroyed the compound when a second assault was launched, killing how many people?
(a) 18
(b) 37
(c) 112
(d) 75

9. Where does the Narrator say Doc O’Connor lives in Act 1?
(a) Rock Springs
(b) Missoula
(c) Bossler
(d) Cody

10. Who is described as the head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming in Act 1?
(a) Marge Murray
(b) Philip Dubois
(c) Bill McKinney
(d) Rebecca Hilliker

11. When was Oscar Wilde born?
(a) 1829
(b) 1897
(c) 1854
(d) 1912

12. The limousine driver in Act 1 claims, “They say that the Wyoming” what will “drive a man insane”?
(a) Owls
(b) Trout
(c) Wind
(d) Snow

13. According to the author in the Author’s Note, during the development of the play, the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie how many times to conduct interviews?
(a) 6
(b) 9
(c) 11
(d) 2

14. Who were the Tectonic Theater Project’s associate writers who led the group in Laramie, according to the Author’s Note?
(a) Stephen Belber and Greg Pierotti
(b) Greg Pierotti and Leigh Fondakowski
(c) Stephen Belber and Jim Geringer
(d) Leigh Fondakowski and Jon Peacock

15. What does Barbara Pitts say the first thing to welcome them was when they arrived in Laramie in Act 1?
(a) A Ferrari dealership
(b) Wal-Mart
(c) A protest
(d) A rodeo

Short Answer Questions

1. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?

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

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. Who interviews Detective Sergeant Hing in the beginning of Act 1?

5. Who wrote Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde?

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