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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Jeffrey Seller produce the rock opera Rent?
(a) Joell Ortiz.
(b) Kevin McCollum.
(c) Jonathan Larson.
(d) Stephen Sondheim.

2. Who was the best friend to Alexander Hamilton and fellow opponent of slavery that appears in Act One of the play?
(a) Hercules Mulligan.
(b) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(c) Ron Chernow.
(d) John Laurens.

3. 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) 1999.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2003.

4. What role did Leslie Odom, Jr. play in the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Hamilton?
(a) Aaron Burr.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) George Washington.
(d) King George III.

5. Who had written the biography on Alexander Hamilton that Lin-Manuel Miranda read in Mexico which partly inspired his ideas for this musical?
(a) Jeffrey Seller.
(b) Oskar Eustis.
(c) Ron Chernow.
(d) Joseph Addison.

6. 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?
(a) Coal miners.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Sharecroppers.
(d) Shipbuilders.

7. Who directed the stage adaptation to Bring It On that Lin co-wrote?
(a) Andy Blankenbuehler.
(b) Vanessa Nadal.
(c) Joseph Addison.
(d) Alex Lacamoire.

8. Who directed the original production of A Chorus Line?
(a) Patrick Willingham.
(b) Jonathan Larson.
(c) Michael Bennett.
(d) Dave Malloy.

9. Where did Tommy Kail grow up?
(a) The Bronx, New York.
(b) Alexandria, Virginia.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Detroit, Michigan.

10. Where did Phillipa Soo study acting?
(a) Yale.
(b) Julliard.
(c) NYU.
(d) Rutgers.

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

12. How was the Notorious B.I.G. killed?
(a) He drowned.
(b) He overdosed.
(c) He was stabbed.
(d) He was shot.

13. From what play is the quote "Don't hang back among the brutes" (10) cited in the introduction?
(a) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(b) A Streetcar Named Desire.
(c) Hamilton.
(d) In the Heights.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What location does Lin refer to as "This weird Brigadoon in the middle of Washington Heights" (40)?

2. By what stage name was Clive Campbell known?

3. 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)?

4. Upon what opera is Rent loosely based?

5. Who performs the song "Empire State of Mind"?

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