This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Elvis - Presliad (Comprising sections Fanfare through The Rockabilly Moment).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said "when I was a boy . . . I was the hero in comic books and movies. I grew up believing in a dream"?
(a) Johnny Cash.
(b) Hank Williams.
(c) Greil Marcus.
(d) Elvis Presley.

2. What does Marcus name the storyteller from The Band's lyrics?
(a) The knight.
(b) The worried man.
(c) Big Pink.
(d) Bob.

3. How did Robert Johnson die?
(a) Murdered.
(b) Old age.
(c) Drug overdose.
(d) Suicide.

4. What song does Marcus claim to be "the most menacing piece of rock 'n' roll ever made"?
(a) "How Many More Years."
(b) "Bo Diddley."
(c) "Stones in My Passway."
(d) "Who Do You Love."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When referencing the South, who said "it's the only place in the country I've ever been where you can actually drive down the highway at night, and if you listen, you hear music"?

2. What archetype does Newman represent?

3. What single did Sly release that was the "most optimistic of all"?

4. What album does Marcus say belongs to Richard Manuel in "The Band?

5. Who wrote "We needed . . . to be violently stirred into life . . . intolerable social constraints grew daily upon us"?

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