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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2 (Chapters 1-2).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the Introduction refers to knowing or using several languages?
(a) Polyglot.
(b) Divulgent.
(c) Litigur.
(d) Articulate.

2. Where was Jeremy McCarter working as a theater critic when In the Heights was premeired Off-Broadway?
(a) The New Yorker magazine.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Village Voice.
(d) New York magazine.

3. 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) 2003.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2006.

4. What kind of song does Jeremy McCarter describe "My Shot" from Hamilton as being in the Introduction to Chapter 2?
(a) A "Lovers meeting" song.
(b) An "Antagonist" song.
(c) A "Climax" song.
(d) An "I want" song.

5. How old was Lin when he performed for the White House at "An Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word"?
(a) 32.
(b) 34.
(c) 29.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hamilton open on Broadway?

2. To whom is Lin-Manuel Miranda married?

3. When did Lin-Manuel Miranda's father come to the U.S. from Puerto Rico?

4. Where did Tommy Kail grow up?

5. Who directed the stage adaptation to Bring It On that Lin co-wrote?

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