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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Randy Newman - Every Man is Free.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sly Stone's given name?
(a) Sylvester Stewart.
(b) Sly Stone.
(c) Sylvester Stone.
(d) Stanley Stewart.

2. What did Sly Stone call his band?
(a) The Stones.
(b) Sly's Guys.
(c) The Band.
(d) The Family.

3. What does Leslie Fielder call the Beatles in "Randy Newman"?
(a) Democrats.
(b) Imaginary Americans.
(c) Pop stars.
(d) Ancestors.

4. Who wrote "We needed . . . to be violently stirred into life . . . intolerable social constraints grew daily upon us"?
(a) Greil Marcus.
(b) Sly Stone.
(c) Frank Kermode.
(d) Leslie Fiedler.

5. According to the critics Marcus references in "The Band," who was Robbie Robertson's "foil"?
(a) The Band.
(b) Robert Manuel.
(c) The audience.
(d) The manager.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Marcus, what is the affirmation that sums up The Band?

2. According to Marcus in "The Band," what message did The Band originally try to get across?

3. According to Marcus, who is the focus in the song "Sail Away"?

4. What song by Randy Newman was a satire on bigotry?

5. Whom did Bob Dylan claim was "America's greatest poet"?

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