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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. Who wrote "Whispering Pines"?
(a) Richard Manuel.
(b) Elvis Presley.
(c) Robert Levon.
(d) Robbie Robertson.

2. In "The Band," what is Marcus' "sentimental favorite" American motto?
(a) "Don't tread on me."
(b) "We must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately."
(c) "Give me liberty or give me death."
(d) "Peace."

3. What does Marcus say failure mean to Americans in "Robert Johnson -1938"?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Despair.
(c) Betrayal.
(d) Loss.

4. Who interrupts the fight over the book in the Prologue?
(a) Rita Moreno.
(b) Erich Segal.
(c) Little Richard.
(d) John Simon.

5. Who wrote: "You run without moving from a terror in which you cannot believe"?
(a) Robert Johnson.
(b) Greil Marcus.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) William Faulkner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sam Phillips' profession?

2. What was Johnson's instrument of choice?

3. What happened the first day of The Band's first concert after releasing The Band?

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

5. According to Marcus, what was country music doing in the early 50s?

(see the answer key)

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