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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (Chapters 3-4).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Lin-Manuel Miranda co-write the stage adaptation to Bring It On?
(a) Tom Kitt and Amanda Green.
(b) Andy Blankenbuehler and Jennifer Warren.
(c) Vanessa Nadal and Richard Wilson.
(d) Alex Lacamoire and Ron Chernow.

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

3. Where was Clive Campbell from?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Brazil.

4. Jeremy McCarter states in the Introduction that the story of the show's creation begins on what date when Lin performed at the White House?
(a) May 12, 2009.
(b) March 12, 2008.
(c) September 1, 2009.
(d) January 25, 2010.

5. When did Barack Obama's father come to the United States?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1972.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the founders of Ars Nova first ask Freestyle Love Supreme to take part in their annual benefit?

2. Where was Barack Obama's father born?

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

4. 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?

5. From what play is the quote "Don't hang back among the brutes" (10) cited in the introduction?

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