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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Sly Stone's given name?
2. Who wrote "We needed . . . to be violently stirred into life . . . intolerable social constraints grew daily upon us"?
3. Staggerlee and Sly Stone are both powerful, but what is different about them?
4. The Riot album reveals what image that Sly had for himself?
5. What car did Elvis both buy and sing about?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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)?
2. According to Marcus in "Randy Newman," what is important about the Beach Boys? (101)
3. In "Elvis," what is Elvis' "Rockabilly Moment" (141)?
4. According to Marcus in "Elvis," what racial issues exist with Elvis' music?
5. Why did Marcus entitle a section "Mystery Train" in "Elvis"? Why is this also the title of the book?
6. In the section "Sly vs. Superfly," what problems emerge from the black movies being made in the early seventies? How is real life different from the movies?
7. In "Sly Stone," how are the first two albums produced by Sly and the Family Stone similar and different?
8. What is the basic plot for the Myth of Staggerlee?
9. According to Marcus in "Sly Stone," why did Sly Stone create the album Riot ?
10. What type of risk does Randy Newman make in his music? What risk does he avoid?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Greil Marcus uses Huck Finn and Captain Ahab as literary allusions throughout Mystery Train. In an essay identify which artists most closely resemble Huck and/or which resemble Captain Ahab. Give details to support your assertions.
Essay Topic 2
The theme of community recurs throughout Mystery Train. In an essay, explore the reasons why this theme would pervade rock 'n' roll music. Use at least two artists and their music as examples.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Randy Newman and Robert Johnson. How are their styles similar and different? How is their subject matter similar? Different? Imagery?
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