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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what political party were Oskar Eustis's mother and stepfather leaders?
(a) The Socialist Party of America.
(b) The Communist Party of America.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

3. Who released the duet "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By"?
(a) Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.
(b) Snoop Dogg and Master P.
(c) Tupac and Alicia Keys.
(d) Mary J. Blige and Method Man.

4. Where did John Adams retreat after leaving New York?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) North Carolina.

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

6. 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) 2003.
(d) 1999.

7. How old was Alex Lacamoire when he began playing piano?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

8. 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) "Satisfied."
(b) "You'll Be Back."
(c) "This One's Mine."
(d) "Wait for It."

9. What character performs the number "You'll Be Back" in Hamilton?
(a) Eliza Schuyler.
(b) King George III.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) Aaron Burr.

10. Where did Elizabeth Schuyler meet Alexander Hamilton?
(a) Morristown, New Jersey.
(b) Newark, New Jersey.
(c) Brooklyn, New York.
(d) New York, New York.

11. In his sidebar notes for the song "Meet Me Inside," Lin-Manuel Miranda claims this is one of the only hip-hop songs he knows with what time signature?
(a) 3/4.
(b) 4/4.
(c) 7/8.
(d) 5/6.

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

13. What line from a Mobb Deep song is quoted in Hamilton (94)?
(a) "I'm only 19 but my mind is older."
(b) "We livin' this til the day that we die."
(c) "It's similar to Vietnam."
(d) "There's a war goin' on outside no man is safe from."

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

15. 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) Alliteration.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Concordance.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did Elizabeth Schuyler meet Alexander Hamilton?

3. When did the founders of Ars Nova first ask Freestyle Love Supreme to take part in their annual benefit?

4. When did Hamilton open on Broadway?

5. When was the duet "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" released?

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