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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Marcus in "The Band," what is the storyteller in the second album?
(a) Murderer.
(b) Settler.
(c) Jokester.
(d) Farmer.

2. How many songs did Johnson record before he died?
(a) 30.
(b) 29.
(c) 98.
(d) 5.

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

4. Who sang "I tried and I failed / And I feel like going home" (154)?
(a) Carl Perkins.
(b) Elvis Presley.
(c) Charlie Rich.
(d) Hank Williams.

5. In what song does Sly Stone mock his own song "Thank you falettinme be mice elf Agin"?
(a) "Bonnie and Clyde."
(b) "Africa Talks to You 'The Asphalt Jungle.'"
(c) "Blowin Your Mind."
(d) "Thank you for talkin' to me Africa."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Elvis' mother?

2. In "The Band," Marcus tells that groups are images of what?

3. What church did Elvis attend as a boy?

4. What does Leslie Fielder call the Beatles in "Randy Newman"?

5. Who said "I learned the words to Little Richard's songs the best I could and what I couldn't figure out didn't matter"?

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