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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. What does Lin-Manuel Miranda say the song "The Schuyler Sisters" really is in Chapter 4 (38)?
(a) "An anthem to America."
(b) "A love trilogy."
(c) "A New York anthem."
(d) "A swelling of the moon."

2. 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?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Shipbuilders.
(c) Coal miners.
(d) Sharecroppers.

3. Who was the lead producer that agreed to develop Hamilton at the Public Theater?
(a) Jeffrey Seller.
(b) Joseph Addison.
(c) Ron Chernow.
(d) Oskar Eustis.

4. Who wrote the play that George Washington had performed at Valley Forge?
(a) Ron Chernow.
(b) Oskar Eustis.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) Joseph Addison.

5. Who wrote, "The dominant purpose of Hamilton's life was the creation of a national sentiment, and thereby the making of a great and powerful nation from the discordant elements furnished by thirteen jarring States" (11)?
(a) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(b) Oskar Eustis.
(c) Jeffrey Seller.
(d) Joseph Addison.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did David Korins work for as his creative director?

3. According to Jeremy McCarter in the Introduction to Chapter 1, what percent of the population is foreign-born?

4. When did Hamilton open on Broadway?

5. Who had written the biography on Alexander Hamilton that Lin-Manuel Miranda read in Mexico which partly inspired his ideas for this musical?

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