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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9 (Chapters 20-22).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term in poetry and music refers to the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?
(a) Concordance.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Assonance.

3. In what Sondheim muical do a trio of friends repeatedly sing, "Hwere's to us. Who's like us? Damn few" (35)?
(a) A Chorus Line.
(b) Merrily We Roll Along.
(c) Guys and Dolls.
(d) The Sound of Music.

4. What role did Lin-Manuel Miranda play on the NBC show Do No Harm?
(a) Joell Ortiz.
(b) Kevin McCollum.
(c) Hercules Mulligan.
(d) Dr. Ruben Marcado.

5. Where did Daveed Diggs grow up?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Oakland.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Say No to This," Alexander Hamilton raps about his affair with whom?

2. According to the author in Chapter 5, Jay-Z's "My 1st Song" is a rare hip-hop track in what tempo?

3. Where was Barack Obama's father born?

4. 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?

5. Lin-Manuel Miranda is quoted in Chapter 5 stating that "Just as we continue to forget that immigrants are the backbone of the country, we forget that musical theater is" what (47)?

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