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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 11 (Chapters 26-28).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the person who writes the scenes and dialogue that accompany the songs in a musical?
(a) Musical director.
(b) Soloist.
(c) Orchestrator.
(d) Librettist.

2. What was the name of the song that Lin originally wrote and later replaced with "Helpless"?
(a) "This One's Mine."
(b) "Satisfied."
(c) "Wait for It."
(d) "You'll Be Back."

3. In what musical does the Witch rap her backstory?
(a) Oz.
(b) Wicked.
(c) Into the Woods.
(d) The Wizard of Oz.

4. Who wrote Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812?
(a) Andy Blankenbuehler.
(b) Dave Malloy.
(c) Jonathan Larson.
(d) Patrick Willingham.

5. The setup of the opening prologue of Hamilton is said in the sidebar notes to be inspired by the prologue of what play?
(a) A Chorus Line.
(b) Sweeney Todd.
(c) Jesus Christ Superstar.
(d) Hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Jeffrey Seller produce the rock opera Rent?

2. When did the creators of Hamilton first perform the first and second acts of the show back to back at the 52nd Street Project?

3. Upon what opera is Rent loosely based?

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. 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?

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