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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Band - Pilgrims' Progress (Comprising sections The Righteous Land through The Weight).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) They were musical geniuses.
(b) They stole from the best and pieced it together.
(c) They studied under many different bands.
(d) They were inheritors of rock 'n' roll.

3. What image does The Band use that shows both division and unity?
(a) States.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Rivers.
(d) The Great Divide.

4. What does Marcus think the performers discussed in the Prologue have in common?
(a) They see themselves as symbolic Americans.
(b) They all were ex-patriots.
(c) Everyone toured together.
(d) Each based his songs on personal experience.

5. Who does Marcus compare Phillips to in the beginning of "Harmonica Frank - 1951"?
(a) Elvis Presley.
(b) Harmonica Frank.
(c) Starbuck.
(d) Huck Finn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Why Are We in Vietnam?

2. With whom is Carmen walking in the song "To Kingdom Come"?

3. Four of the members from The Band are from where?

4. What is ironic about rock 'n' roll and democracy?

5. Who wrote "Whispering Pines"?

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