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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Elvis - Presliad (Comprising sections Fanfare through The Rockabilly Moment).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sly Stone's given name?
(a) Sylvester Stone.
(b) Stanley Stewart.
(c) Sylvester Stewart.
(d) Sly Stone.

2. To which historical figure does Marcus compare Elvis?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Stevie Wonder.

3. 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) Robbie Robertson.
(b) Elvis Presley.
(c) Greil Marcus.
(d) Randy Newman.

4. According to the myth, who did Staggerlee shoot?
(a) Billy the Lion.
(b) Leroy Brown.
(c) Himself.
(d) A stranger.

5. In the introduction to "Elvis," Marcus claims that Elvis epitomizes what?
(a) The worst of our culture.
(b) The chaos of Harmonica Frank.
(c) The anger of Robert Johnson.
(d) The best of our culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what feeling does Robert Johnson pull his images?

2. What was Elvis called in the beginning of his career?

3. "Me and the Devil Blues" uses imagery that provokes what emotion?

4. Who said "This is the mystery of democracy . . . that its richest fruits spring up out of souls which no man has prepared and in circumstances where they are least expected"?

5. What literary figure does Marcus allude to in "Sly Stone" when identifying how Sly speaks in the music?

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