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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. Where did Jeffrey Seller grow up?
(a) Newark, New Jersey.
(b) Oak Park, Michigan.
(c) Los Angeles, California.
(d) San Francisco, California.

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

3. According to Jeremy McCarter in the Introduction to Chapter 1, what percent of the population is foreign-born?
(a) 10%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 16%.
(d) 13%.

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

5. Which of the Schuyler sisters did Jasmine Cephas Jones play in Act One?
(a) Angelica.
(b) Emilia.
(c) Peggy.
(d) Eliza.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Alexander Hamilton plead with New York's leaders to trust in the possibilities of union and vote to ratify the new federal Constitution, according to the author in Chapter 10?

2. In what Sondheim muical do a trio of friends repeatedly sing, "Hwere's to us. Who's like us? Damn few" (35)?

3. Lin's side notes for the song "Ten Duel Commandments" indicate that the song owes a huge debt to what book by Joanne Freeman?

4. Who wrote of the young United States, "It was patched and piebald policy then, as it is now, ever was and ever will be, world without end" (124)?

5. Upon what opera is Rent loosely based?

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