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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (Chapters 8-10).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Jeffrey Seller grow up?
(a) San Francisco, California.
(b) Oak Park, Michigan.
(c) Newark, New Jersey.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

2. According to the sidebar notes, the piano riff that opens Hamilton was inspired by what sound?
(a) A spring breeze.
(b) A howling wolf.
(c) A door squeak.
(d) A gunshot.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Alex Lacamoire grow up?

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

3. Jeremy McCarter states in the Introduction that the story of the show's creation begins on what date when Lin performed at the White House?

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. According to Jeremy McCarter in the Introduction to Chapter 1, what percent of the population is foreign-born?

(see the answer key)

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