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

2. Marcus tells that Melville once wrote that a man is only free if he says what?
(a) Help.
(b) Mine.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

3. Who wrote "Little Wing"?
(a) Jimmy Hendrix.
(b) Neil Young.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Sly Stone.

4. To which historical figure does Marcus compare Elvis?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Stevie Wonder.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

5. What was on the cover of Riot?
(a) Sly wearing a zoot suit.
(b) An American flag with flowers for stars.
(c) Water.
(d) A gun.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote: "You run without moving from a terror in which you cannot believe"?

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

4. What is the name of Elvis' mother?

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

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