Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music Test | Final Test - Easy

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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Riot album reveals what image that Sly had for himself?
(a) Artist.
(b) Failure.
(c) Success.
(d) Cop out.

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

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

4. In the introduction to "Elvis," Marcus claims that Elvis epitomizes what?
(a) The chaos of Harmonica Frank.
(b) The anger of Robert Johnson.
(c) The worst of our culture.
(d) The best of our culture.

5. According to Marcus in "Sly Stone," what is pop culture by definition?
(a) Angry.
(b) Rebellious.
(c) Determined.
(d) Optimistic.

6. What type of audience does Marcus believe Randy Newman attracts?
(a) Cult.
(b) Retro.
(c) Pop.
(d) Punk.

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

8. Why was Newman's choice of voice "dangerous"?
(a) Audiences are too literal.
(b) It was confusing.
(c) It alienated people.
(d) Audiences are too critical.

9. What song by Randy Newman was a satire on bigotry?
(a) "God's Song."
(b) "Suzanne."
(c) "Short People."
(d) "Davy the Fat Boy."

10. Staggerlee and Sly Stone are both powerful, but what is different about them?
(a) Sly bought his fame.
(b) Sly did not kill anyone to get power.
(c) Staggerlee worked his way to the top.
(d) Staggerlee had no emotion.

11. According to Marcus in "Elvis," why does Elvis NOT owe blacks anything?
(a) The music was a throwaway.
(b) He made the music his own.
(c) They did not copyright the style.
(d) They gave the style away freely.

12. According to Marcus, what does Elvis symbolize?
(a) Selfishness.
(b) The American dream realized.
(c) Faith.
(d) The beginning of something new.

13. In what voice does Newman sing his songs?
(a) The audience.
(b) His own.
(c) The storyteller's.
(d) The character's.

14. What controversial topics are addressed in Randy Newman's song "Sail Away"?
(a) Art and realism.
(b) Power and politics.
(c) Slavery and the American dream.
(d) Money and race.

15. In what song does Sly Stone mock his own song "Thank you falettinme be mice elf Agin"?
(a) "Africa Talks to You 'The Asphalt Jungle.'"
(b) "Bonnie and Clyde."
(c) "Thank you for talkin' to me Africa."
(d) "Blowin Your Mind."

Short Answer Questions

1. What Randy Newman song does Marcus claim suggests that the we are being laughed at and life is a joke?

2. What did some bullies call Elvis before he was a star and had grown side burns?

3. Who wrote "obviously, it is easier to kill than to create" (95)?

4. According to Marcus in "Randy Newman," what is the number one democratic desire?

5. What does Marcus point out as valuable in the Beach Boys music?

(see the answer keys)

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