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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 (Chapters 5-7).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Alex Lacamoire grow up?
(a) New York.
(b) Miami.
(c) Boston.
(d) Detroit.

2. Where did Chris Jackson grow up?
(a) Selma, South Carolina.
(b) Cairo, Illinois.
(c) Detroit, Michigan.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

3. What is the refrain that concludes "The Schuyler Sisters" (45)?
(a) "Across the bridge to another land."
(b) "In the greatest country in the world!"
(c) "God Save the King!"
(d) "In the greatest city in the world!"

4. What year was it that Jeremy McCarter describes Lin-Manuel Miranda first telling him he wanted to make a hip-hop concept album about Hamilton?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2006.

5. Whose tribute to the MC Big Pun was an inspiration to Lin in writing Hamilton?
(a) Jonathan Larson's.
(b) Kevin McCollum's.
(c) Clive Richards's.
(d) Joell Ortiz's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 4 that research on the production revealed that the carpenters in New York and other coastal towns in Alexander Hamilton's era was that many of them were what?

2. With whom did Lin-Manuel Miranda co-write the stage adaptation to Bring It On?

3. What was the name of the play that Jeffrey Seller wrote in fourth grade after seeing his synagogue's Purim play?

4. Upon what opera is Rent loosely based?

5. Who played piano for Lin's performance at "An Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word"?

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