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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A protest
(c) Wal-Mart
(d) A rodeo

2. In Detective Sergeant Hing’s interview in Act 1, Hing states that all the towns of southern Wyoming are laid out and spaced because of what coming through?
(a) Buffalo
(b) The weather
(c) The Pony Express
(d) The railroad

3. 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) Jon Peacock
(b) Stephen Wangh
(c) Sherry Johnson
(d) Greg Pierotti

4. Who developed the original music for the premiere production of The Laramie Project?
(a) Stephen Belber
(b) Doug Laws
(c) Peter Golub
(d) Harry Woods

5. In what year did Oscar Wilde die?
(a) 1935
(b) 1974
(c) 1951
(d) 1900

Short Answer 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?

2. According to the author in the Introduction, every project Tectonic Theater Project undertakes as a company has two objectives. What is the first?

3. Where was the poet, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht born?

4. The limousine driver in Act 1 claims, “They say that the Wyoming” what will “drive a man insane”?

5. In what year was Matthew Shepard born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What structural purpose do Kaufman’s “moments” have in the play?

2. How are the religious views in Laramie depicted in “Moment: The Word” in Act 1?

3. How was Matthew Shepard discovered? Where was he taken?

4. What is related in “Moment: The Fireside” in Act 1?

5. What does Doc O’Connor remark about the gay population in Laramie in Act 1?

6. What does Marge Murray say about bias and prejudice within Laramie in Act 1?

7. What did Moisés Kaufman hope to capture from the residents in Laramie, Wyoming?

8. What does Jedadiah Schultz relate about the play Angels in America in Act 1?

9. What is related in “Moment: A Scarf” in Act 1?

10. What do the residents of Laramie relate in “Moment: A Definition”?

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