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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Jeremy McCarter working as a theater critic when In the Heights was premeired Off-Broadway?
(a) The New Yorker magazine.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Village Voice.
(d) New York magazine.

2. What song did the casting agency Telsy + Company send to Renee Elise Goldsberry that convinced her to audition for Hamilton?
(a) "Satisfied."
(b) "You'll Be Back."
(c) "Wait for It."
(d) "This One's Mine."

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?
(a) Walk in Darkness.
(b) Affairs of Honor.
(c) Room and Board.
(d) The Field of Blood.

4. 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) Hair.
(c) Jesus Christ Superstar.
(d) Sweeney Todd.

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

6. What song from Hamilton centers on King George warning the American colonists not to rebel?
(a) "The Story of Tonight."
(b) "First, Second, Third."
(c) "Aaron Burr, Sir."
(d) "You'll Be Back."

7. Desiree Armfeldt is a character from what musical?
(a) Little Shop of Horrors.
(b) A Chorus Line.
(c) A Little Night Music.
(d) Jesus Christ Superstar.

8. When did Hamilton open on Broadway?
(a) January 25, 2010.
(b) August 6, 2015.
(c) September 1, 2009.
(d) May 12, 2009.

9. Where did Chris Jackson grow up?
(a) Selma, South Carolina.
(b) Cairo, Illinois.
(c) Los Angeles, California.
(d) Detroit, Michigan.

10. What are the names of the Schuyler sisters?
(a) Peggy, Angelica, and Eliza.
(b) Maria, Sarah, and Eliza.
(c) Anna, Angelica, and Patty.
(d) Emilia, Donna, and Roberta.

11. Where did Clive Campbell help to originate hip-hop music?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Queens.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Brooklyn.

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

13. Who is the Irish tailor that appears in Act One of Hamilton?
(a) Hercules Mulligan.
(b) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(c) John Laurens.
(d) Ron Chernow.

14. When did Lin-Manuel Miranda's father come to the U.S. from Puerto Rico?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1956.

15. 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)?
(a) "An act of rebellion."
(b) "A magical art form."
(c) "A mongrel art form."
(d) "A custom of history."

Short Answer Questions

1. What music-recording program did Lin-Manuel Miranda use in creating demos of most of the songs in Hamilton?

2. Who was the lead producer that agreed to develop Hamilton at the Public Theater?

3. Who directed the stage adaptation to Bring It On that Lin co-wrote?

4. Who had written the biography on Alexander Hamilton that Lin-Manuel Miranda read in Mexico which partly inspired his ideas for this musical?

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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