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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) "Come on in My Kitchen."
(c) "Walking Blues."
(d) "Stones in My Passway."

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

3. From what feeling does Robert Johnson pull his images?
(a) Desolation.
(b) Hope.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

4. Who said "If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel . . . I could make a billion dollars"?
(a) Carl Perkins.
(b) Harmonica Frank.
(c) Sam Phillips.
(d) Greil Marcus.

5. In "Harmonica Frank -1951," who is the "latest Ahab"?
(a) Harmonica Frank.
(b) Huck Finn.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Band," to what does Marcus compare the song "We Can Talk About It Now"?

2. What does Marcus say failure mean to Americans in "Robert Johnson -1938"?

3. Who wrote the book discussed in the Prologue?

4. What song of Elvis Presley's is mentioned as having the "young hold on freedom" and a "touch of fear" reminiscent to Robert Johnson's?

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

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