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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sly Stone - The Myth of Staggerlee (Comprising sections Sly Versus Superfly through A Quiet Rebellion).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many songs did Johnson record before he died?
(a) 98.
(b) 5.
(c) 29.
(d) 30.

2. Who, according to Marcus, gave Staggerlee the cruelest epitaph?
(a) Sly Stone.
(b) John Hurt.
(c) Elvis Presley.
(d) Eldridge Cleaver.

3. What is the "old American idea" that the worried man is stuck in according to Marcus?
(a) The past as the present.
(b) Tradition before change.
(c) An innocent world.
(d) A joint-stock world.

4. What literary term does Marcus identify with the line "When he died, all he left us was alone"?
(a) Enigma.
(b) Epitaph.
(c) Theme.
(d) Moral.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character in the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"?

2. What religious group does Marcus compare blues singers to in "Robert Johnson -1938"?

3. Why does Marcus discuss many movies in "Sly Stone"?

4. What author does Marcus quote in the beginning of "Robert Johnson -1938" to illustrate the promise of American life?

5. Why did political activist, Eldridge Cleaver, not want to go to jail?

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