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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sly Stone - The Myth of Staggerlee (Comprising sections Sly Versus Superfly through A Quiet Rebellion).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Papa Was a Rolling Stone?'
(a) The Temptations.
(b) Sly Stone.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Jimmy Hendrix.

2. What is the name of The Band's third album?
(a) Dixie.
(b) Dirty Dozen.
(c) Big Pink.
(d) Stage Fright.

3. Who wrote "We needed . . . to be violently stirred into life . . . intolerable social constraints grew daily upon us"?
(a) Sly Stone.
(b) Leslie Fiedler.
(c) Greil Marcus.
(d) Frank Kermode.

4. Where does the line "They're animals anyway . . . let them lose their souls" come from?
(a) Hit Man.
(b) Trouble Man.
(c) Cleopatra Jones.
(d) The Godfather.

5. Why does Marcus discuss many movies in "Sly Stone"?
(a) They all include the Staggerlee myth.
(b) Sly Stone made the soundtracks for them.
(c) They are about black people.
(d) They are biographies for Sly Stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Band," Marcus tells that Robbie Robertson believed the "music" came from where?

2. Who is the main character in the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"?

3. According to Marcus in "The Band," what is the storyteller in the second album?

4. In "The Band," what does Marcus point to as the reason that The Band had the influences of many different bands and yet had an original sound?

5. What does Marcus claim in "The Band" is not community?

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