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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. What does Marcus say each performer he will discuss in the book attempts to do?
(a) Entertain.
(b) Redefine love.
(c) Create oneself.
(d) Make music for money.

2. Four of the members from The Band are from where?
(a) Canada.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Australia.

3. In "Harmonica Frank -1951," Marcus claims that Phillips was looking for music to do what?
(a) Anger people.
(b) Start a revolution.
(c) Affirm traditional roles.
(d) Confuse things.

4. In "Harmonica Frank -1951," who is the "latest Ahab"?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Harmonica Frank.
(c) Huck Finn.
(d) Bob Dylan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Band," what is Marcus' "sentimental favorite" American motto?

2. How did Robert Johnson die?

3. In "The Band," Marcus tells that Robbie Robertson believed the "music" came from where?

4. What is the name of the television show that Greil Marcus uses as an example in the Prologue?

5. What song of Elvis Presley's is mentioned as having the "young hold on freedom" and a "touch of fear" reminiscent to Robert Johnson's?

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