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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Band - Pilgrims' Progress (Comprising sections Introduction through Crossing the Border).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Johnson's instrument of choice?
(a) Saxophone.
(b) Guitar.
(c) Harmonica.
(d) Piano.

3. According to Marcus in "Harmonica Frank -1951," what do both Ahab and Huck have in common?
(a) They are after a dream that is not real.
(b) They try to escape restraints and authority.
(c) They have aunts who try to civilize them.
(d) They go on adventures for the sake of adventure.

4. Who said "I played rock and roll before I ever heard of Elvis Presley. I saw him in Memphis before he ever made a record"?
(a) Little Richard.
(b) Harmonica Frank.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Sam Phillips.

5. Who said "If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye, and that eye is in the middle of her forehead, you don't keep her in the living room"?
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) Erich Segal.
(c) Norman Mailer.
(d) Harmonica Frank.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the Prologue, Marcus says that the music he will discuss dramatizes what?

3. In "Harmonica Frank -1951," Marcus claims that Phillips was looking for music to do what?

4. How did Harmonica Frank get his name?

5. What "spirit" does Harmonica Frank have that Marcus believes is truly American?

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