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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Elvis - Presliad (Comprising sections Fanfare through The Rockabilly Moment).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author does Marcus quote in the beginning of "Robert Johnson -1938" to illustrate the promise of American life?
(a) Norman Mailer.
(b) Robert Johnson.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Herman Melville.

2. When referencing the South, who said "it's the only place in the country I've ever been where you can actually drive down the highway at night, and if you listen, you hear music"?
(a) Elvis Presley.
(b) Robbie Robertson.
(c) Randy Newman.
(d) Greil Marcus.

3. "Me and the Devil Blues" uses imagery that provokes what emotion?
(a) Lust.
(b) Love.
(c) Desolation.
(d) Hubris.

4. What song does Marcus claim is Robert Johnson's most terrifying song?
(a) "Me and the Devil Blues."
(b) "Come on in My Kitchen."
(c) "Walking Blues."
(d) "Stones in My Passway."

5. According to Marcus in "Sly Stone," what two words make the song "Poet" poetry?
(a) Grinnin and chasin.
(b) Run and stop.
(c) Devil and bullets.
(d) Begin and start.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary figure does Marcus allude to in "Sly Stone" when identifying how Sly speaks in the music?

2. Staggerlee and Sly Stone are both powerful, but what is different about them?

3. What church did Elvis attend as a boy?

4. From what feeling does Robert Johnson pull his images?

5. What motto of Hank Williams' made him similar to Robert Johnson according to Marcus?

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