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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Band - Pilgrims' Progress (Comprising sections The Righteous Land through The Weight).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what feeling does Robert Johnson pull his images?
(a) Hope.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Desolation.

2. 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?
(a) "Blue Suede Shoes."
(b) "Peace in the Valley."
(c) "God's Song."
(d) "Hound Dog."

3. Who said "If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel . . . I could make a billion dollars"?
(a) Harmonica Frank.
(b) Carl Perkins.
(c) Greil Marcus.
(d) Sam Phillips.

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

5. In "Harmonica Frank -1951," what song does Marcus say "set the stage for rock 'n' roll"?
(a) "Mixed-Up Confusion."
(b) "Rockin' Chair Daddy."
(c) "Up on Cripple Creek."
(d) "Howling Tomcat."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Why Are We in Vietnam?

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

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

5. "Me and the Devil Blues" uses imagery that provokes what emotion?

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