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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (Chapters 8-10).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was George Washington's favorite play that he had performed at Valley Forge?
(a) Turcaret.
(b) Cato.
(c) The Czar of Muscovy.
(d) Henry VI.

2. What song did Alex Lacamoire compose for Sesame Street that is a pride of his?
(a) "You'll Be Back."
(b) "My Shot."
(c) "Farmer Refuted."
(d) "First, Second, Third."

3. Where was Barack Obama's father born?
(a) Somalia.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Kenya.
(d) Nigeria.

4. When did Elizabeth Schuyler meet Alexander Hamilton?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1780.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1800.

5. Who among the Schuyler sisters married rich and died young, thus explaining her disappearance in Act Two of the play?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Angelica.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Peggy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term in poetry and music refers to the repetition of the sound of a vowel in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible?

2. What kind of song does Jeremy McCarter describe "My Shot" from Hamilton as being in the Introduction to Chapter 2?

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?

4. Where was Jeremy McCarter working as a theater critic when In the Heights was premeired Off-Broadway?

5. How old was Ron Chernow when he assisted in the development of Hamilton?

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