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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Marcus in "Randy Newman," whose song was Randy Newman answering in his version of "Suzanne"?
(a) Robert Johnson.
(b) The Beatles.
(c) Leonard Cohen.
(d) The Beach Boys.

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

3. According to Marcus in "Randy Newman," why does Newman lack a large audience for most of his early carrier?
(a) He lacks talent.
(b) He does not try.
(c) Critics hated him.
(d) Critics loved him.

4. What motto of Hank Williams' made him similar to Robert Johnson according to Marcus?
(a) Nothing really matters.
(b) The end is near.
(c) What life doesn't give me, I'll take.
(d) Life goes on.

5. 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"?
(a) Greil Marcus.
(b) Robbie Robertson.
(c) Randy Newman.
(d) Elvis Presley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did people riot at Sly Stone concerts in the 70s?

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

3. Curtis Mayfield's songs in Superfly were meant to be what according to Marcus?

4. What does Marcus point out as valuable in the Beach Boys music?

5. What church did Elvis attend as a boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast Sly and Staggerlee as presented in "Sly Stone: The Myth of Staggerlee in the sections: Introduction and "Sly Stone." How are they similar? How are they different?

2. What is the epitaph written by John Hurt? Why does Marcus include the Stag-o-lee epitaph at the end of "Sly Stone: The Myth of Staggerlee"?

3. According to Marcus in "Randy Newman," what is important about the Beach Boys? (101)

4. According to Marcus in "Sly Stone," how does the music produced by Sly and the Family Stone resemble freedom?

5. What type of risk does Randy Newman make in his music? What risk does he avoid?

6. According to Marcus in "Elvis," what racial issues exist with Elvis' music?

7. According to Marcus in "Elvis," what are Elvis Presley's roots?

8. In "Randy Newman," does Randy Newman care if he is popular or not?

9. According to Marcus in "Sly Stone," how did Newton and Cleaver use the myth of Staggerlee?

10. According to Marcus in "Sly Stone," why did Sly Stone create the album Riot ?

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