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1. What sweet and sentimental Stephen Foster song is about the singer's attempt to arouse a sleeping young woman?
2. What 1848 Stephen Foster song mourned the death of an elderly plantation slave, noting there would be "no more hard work" for him, where he had gone now?
3. What song, named after a Mississippi flag the author saw in 1861, became an unofficial anthem of the Confederacy?
4. What 1861 poem, supposedly announcing that all was silent on a riverbank, was really meant to show that it was noisy and violent, with occasional gunfire and death?
5. What song reminds us that pleasures and palaces aren't all they're cracked up to be? Dorothy Gale famously repeated the last line of this song, while clicking her heels.
6. What 1851 Stephen Foster song is an ode to elderly family and a home along the Suwannee River, a river which he never saw? The song was Florida's state song starting in 1935, but was heavily edited in 2008.
7. Not a Stephen Foster tune, what song from the 1840s told the story of an elderly gentleman who needed to allow others to go around him, because he was too far past time to arrive for his evening meal?
8. People from the 1860s sang a different version of this song than we usually do, but it had the same name. What "old" state did the singer want people to "carry me back to" when he died?
9. What old folk song had many variations, including instrumentals, but all talked about a large barnyard fowl in the chaff left over from threshing?
10. In the fall of 1862, Henry C. Work knew the Emancipation Proclamation was coming. What humorous song did he write, comparing it to a Biblical practice?
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