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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Harmonica Frank - 1951.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the book discussed in the Prologue?
(a) Nicholas Sparks.
(b) Irwin Shaw.
(c) Erich Segal.
(d) John Steinbeck.

2. How did Harmonica Frank get his name?
(a) When he sang, he sounded like a harmonica.
(b) He was a blues singer.
(c) His mouth looked like a harmonica.
(d) He played the harmonica out of one side of his mouth.

3. In the Prologue, Marcus says that the music he will discuss dramatizes what?
(a) What it means to be American.
(b) The war.
(c) Life in the projects.
(d) The racial tensions of the time.

4. Whom does Marcus claim puts the pieces together to find meaning in the music?
(a) Artists.
(b) Rock 'n' rollers.
(c) The audience.
(d) The critic.

5. What is added in the middle of the chapter "Harmonica Frank -1951," set off with a note from the author?
(a) A footnote.
(b) An appendix.
(c) A digression.
(d) An autobiography.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Marcus feel when Elvis was drafted?

2. 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"?

3. In "Harmonica Frank -1951," what song does Marcus say "set the stage for rock 'n' roll"?

4. Who interrupts the fight over the book in the Prologue?

5. What is American culture built on according to Marcus?

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