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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the last number on The Band album?
(a) "Whispering Pines."
(b) "Dixie."
(c) "King Harvest."
(d) "Crossing the Great Divide."

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

4. What was the original name of the Band in the early sixties?
(a) The Hawks.
(b) The Beatles.
(c) Robbie and the Rockers.
(d) The Bush Beaters.

5. How did Robert Johnson die?
(a) Drug overdose.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Old age.
(d) Murdered.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what order is Mystery Train organized?

2. What magazine had an article "measuring Richard Manuel for a straight-jacket" (62)?

3. What single did Sly release that was the "most optimistic of all"?

4. 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"?

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

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