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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. According to Marcus, what did Staggerlee represent to the black community?
(a) Hope.
(b) Death.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Corruption.

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

3. What religious group does Marcus compare blues singers to in "Robert Johnson -1938"?
(a) Puritans.
(b) Voodoo.
(c) Satanists.
(d) Catholics.

4. According to Marcus in "Sly Stone," what two words make the song "Poet" poetry?
(a) Begin and start.
(b) Devil and bullets.
(c) Grinnin and chasin.
(d) Run and stop.

5. Whom did Bob Dylan claim was "America's greatest poet"?
(a) Sly Stone.
(b) Smokey Robinson.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Randy Newman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many songs did Johnson record before he died?

2. From whom does Marcus quote in the beginning to introduce the myth of Staggerlee in "Sly Stone"?

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

4. What type of Staggerlee does Sly create in Riot?

5. Who said "when I was a boy . . . I was the hero in comic books and movies. I grew up believing in a dream"?

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