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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote the music and lyrics of The Last Ship?
(a) Prince.
(b) Tom Waits.
(c) Sting.
(d) David Bowie.

3. What contemporary setting was Lin-Manuel Miranda inspired by for the scene in Hamilton that is set in The Common?
(a) Union Square Park.
(b) Prospect Park.
(c) Central Park.
(d) Washington Square Park.

4. What is Phillipa Soo's father's occupation?
(a) He is a lawyer.
(b) He is a doctor.
(c) He is an artist.
(d) He is an actor.

5. According to the author in Chapter 5, Jay-Z's "My 1st Song" is a rare hip-hop track in what tempo?
(a) 4/4.
(b) 3/4.
(c) 6/8.
(d) 2/3.

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

7. What song from Hamilton does Leslie Odom, Jr. say he will always sing and that it is always different every time he sings it?
(a) "This One's Mine."
(b) "Wait for It."
(c) "You'll Be Back."
(d) "Satisfied."

8. 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?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2006.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2003.

9. At what theater on Broadway did Hamilton open?
(a) The Lucille Lortell Theatre.
(b) The Richard Rodgers Theatre.
(c) The Winter Garden Theatre.
(d) The August Wilson Theatre.

10. 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?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Concordance.

11. Upon whom did Ron Chernow pen a biography that earned him the Pulitzer Prize following his book on Hamilton?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) George Washington.

12. What music-recording program did Lin-Manuel Miranda use in creating demos of most of the songs in Hamilton?
(a) FL Studio.
(b) Audacity.
(c) Logic Pro.
(d) Magix.

13. Who wrote the rock musical Rent?
(a) Stephen Sondheim.
(b) Joell Ortiz.
(c) Jonathan Larson.
(d) Kevin McCollum.

14. Where was the Notorious B.I.G. from?
(a) Bronx, New York.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Brooklyn, New York.
(d) Detroit, Michigan.

15. When did Lin-Manuel Miranda marry?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2008.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oskar Eustis states in Chapter 12 that what Lin does in Hamilton and his other works is the same as what playwright?

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

3. 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?

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

5. The setup of the opening prologue of Hamilton is said in the sidebar notes to be inspired by the prologue of what play?

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