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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about rock 'n' roll and democracy?
(a) Each asks people to be something better than they are.
(b) They demand work and play.
(c) Neither works in a specific way.
(d) They are both individual and a community.

2. What happened the first day of The Band's first concert after releasing The Band?
(a) They invented crowd surfing.
(b) They played their best performance.
(c) They broke up.
(d) They got stage fright.

3. Who said "I played rock and roll before I ever heard of Elvis Presley. I saw him in Memphis before he ever made a record"?
(a) Little Richard.
(b) Harmonica Frank.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Sam Phillips.

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

5. In "The Band," Marcus tells that Robbie Robertson believed the "music" came from where?
(a) God.
(b) Within.
(c) The land.
(d) Nowhere.

6. Who did Marcus speak with while in Woodstock to interview Robbie Robertson?
(a) Dominique Robertson.
(b) Bob Dylan.
(c) Sly Stone.
(d) Robert Manuel.

7. In the Prologue, Marcus says that the music he will discuss dramatizes what?
(a) The war.
(b) Life in the projects.
(c) The racial tensions of the time.
(d) What it means to be American.

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

9. What religious group does Marcus compare blues singers to in "Robert Johnson -1938"?
(a) Catholics.
(b) Voodoo.
(c) Satanists.
(d) Puritans.

10. What book is being discussed on the television show sketch used in the Prologue?
(a) The Notebook.
(b) Love Story.
(c) Of Mice and Men.
(d) Rich Man, Poor Man.

11. What is the name of The Band's second album?
(a) The Weight.
(b) America.
(c) The Band.
(d) Big Pink.

12. Who is the main character in the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"?
(a) Robbie Robertson.
(b) Robert Levon.
(c) Robert E. Lee.
(d) Virgil Kane.

13. In "Robert Johnson - 1938," why do some of Robert Johnson's contemporaries say that Johnson sold his soul to the devil?
(a) He bragged about it in his songs.
(b) He practiced voodoo.
(c) He began speaking in tongues.
(d) He learned to play the blues quickly.

14. What magazine had an article "measuring Richard Manuel for a straight-jacket" (62)?
(a) Playboy.
(b) Time.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Rolling Stones.

15. What image does The Band use that shows both division and unity?
(a) The Great Divide.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Revolution.
(d) States.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Harmonica Frank -1951," what does Marcus tell was his first Elvis record?

2. In "Harmonica Frank -1951," who is the "latest Ahab"?

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

4. According to Marcus in "Robert Johnson -1938," what is the American struggle?

5. Who says "Instead of throwing a knapsack over your back and getting out on the highway, to learn about life, we were able to do it together. We were protected by one another"?

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