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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Elvis' mother?
(a) Gladys Presley.
(b) Lydia Preston.
(c) Lisa Presley.
(d) Helen Preston.

2. What is the name of Randy Newman's album that finally gained him a larger audience?
(a) Sunny Afternoon.
(b) Sail Away.
(c) Good Old Boys.
(d) The Godfather.

3. Why did people riot at Sly Stone concerts in the 70s?
(a) His music provoked angry emotions.
(b) The police showed up and made racial slurs.
(c) Sly sold out.
(d) Sly showed up late or not at all.

4. How many people came to see Elvis open a shopping center after he produced only one record?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 100.
(d) 30.

5. Who wrote "Little Wing"?
(a) Jimmy Hendrix.
(b) Bob Dylan.
(c) Sly Stone.
(d) Neil Young.

6. Whom did Bob Dylan claim was "America's greatest poet"?
(a) Smokey Robinson.
(b) Bob Dylan.
(c) Sly Stone.
(d) Randy Newman.

7. What literary term does Marcus identify with the line "When he died, all he left us was alone"?
(a) Moral.
(b) Theme.
(c) Epitaph.
(d) Enigma.

8. Why was Newman's choice of voice "dangerous"?
(a) It was confusing.
(b) Audiences are too critical.
(c) Audiences are too literal.
(d) It alienated people.

9. What does Marcus point out as valuable in the Beach Boys music?
(a) It is poetic.
(b) It reflects everyday people.
(c) It criticizes mainstream society.
(d) It is truthful.

10. According to Marcus, what does Elvis symbolize?
(a) Selfishness.
(b) The American dream realized.
(c) Faith.
(d) The beginning of something new.

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

12. Who said "if I couldn't perform I'd give up . . . It's not a question of the money side of it. . . not having that ninety minutes up there anymore. Phew. I don't like to think about it"?
(a) Van Morrison.
(b) Rod Stewart.
(c) Randy Newman.
(d) John Lennon.

13. Curtis Mayfield's songs in Superfly were meant to be what according to Marcus?
(a) Parody.
(b) Legendary.
(c) Direct.
(d) Superficial.

14. What Randy Newman song does Marcus claim suggests that the we are being laughed at and life is a joke?
(a) "Burn On."
(b) "God's Song."
(c) "Short People."
(d) "Suzanne."

15. What does Sly shout back at the band in "Africa Talks to You 'the Asphalt Jungle'"?
(a) "Help."
(b) "Stop."
(c) "I'm a dying."
(d) "Timber."

Short Answer Questions

1. What group did Cleaver and Seale found?

2. Who wrote "There's a mickie in the tastin' of disaster" (90)?

3. What controversial topics are addressed in Randy Newman's song "Sail Away"?

4. The Riot album reveals what image that Sly had for himself?

5. Who wrote "Hound Dog"?

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