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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. What type of audience does Marcus believe Randy Newman attracts?
(a) Pop.
(b) Cult.
(c) Punk.
(d) Retro.
2. According to Marcus in "Sly Stone," what two words make the song "Poet" poetry?
(a) Begin and start.
(b) Grinnin and chasin.
(c) Devil and bullets.
(d) Run and stop.
3. What did Sly Stone call his band?
(a) The Family.
(b) The Stones.
(c) The Band.
(d) Sly's Guys.
4. How many people came to see Elvis open a shopping center after he produced only one record?
(a) 30.
(b) 100.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 10,000.
5. What motto of Hank Williams' made him similar to Robert Johnson according to Marcus?
(a) Nothing really matters.
(b) Life goes on.
(c) What life doesn't give me, I'll take.
(d) The end is near.
Short Answer Questions
1. Staggerlee and Sly Stone are both powerful, but what is different about them?
2. What Randy Newman song does Marcus claim suggests that the we are being laughed at and life is a joke?
3. What is the name of Randy Newman's album that finally gained him a larger audience?
4. Why was Newman's choice of voice "dangerous"?
5. Why did people riot at Sly Stone concerts in the 70s?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Marcus entitle a section "Mystery Train" in "Elvis"? Why is this also the title of the book?
2. According to Marcus in "Elvis," in what ways can Elvis be considered a myth?
3. Why does Marcus compare the Fresh album by Sly to "Nietzsche's belief that he who gazes into the abyss will find the abyss looking back; that he who looks too long at monsters may well become one" (90)?
4. According to Marcus in the section "Sly Versus Superfly," why does Riot matter?
5. What is the basic plot for the Myth of Staggerlee?
6. In "Elvis," Marcus compares Elvis Presley to Abraham Lincoln, why?
7. In "Elvis," Marcus discusses the Pink Cadillac as being the downfall of Elvis. What does the Pink Cadillac symbolize and how is it Elvis' downfall?
8. In "Sly Stone," how are the first two albums produced by Sly and the Family Stone similar and different?
9. According to Marcus in "Elvis," what was ironic about Elvis' natural, spontaneous appearance and sound in his music?
10. According to Marcus in "Randy Newman" what is a shared culture? Why is the shared culture important?
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