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Quiz about Dylan Song by Song The Times They Are AChangin

Dylan Song by Song: "The Times They Are A-Changin' Quiz


This quiz will examine Bob Dylan's popular song, "The Times They Are A-Changin'."

A multiple-choice quiz by skylarb. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
skylarb
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
399,145
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
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Avg Score
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Question 1 of 10
1. "The Times They Are A-Changin" appeared on which Bob Dylan studio album? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "The Times They Are A-Changin'" appeared on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." What was it ranked? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Music critic Michael Gray referred to this song as the "archetypal" what? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Which of these lines of the song is a reference to Mark 10:31? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which band covered this song on their 1965 album "Turn! Turn! Turn!"? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which of the following musicians never recorded a cover of "The Times They Are A-Changin"? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Complete this lyric: "For the loser now / Will be later to __."

Answer: (one word (three letters))
Question 8 of 10
8. This song is arranged to repeat one rhyme sound multiple times per stanza. In the first stanza, Dylan rhymes roam, grown, bone, and what word? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. In the fourth stanza, Dylan rhymes land, understand, command, and what word? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Fill in the missing word from this lyric: "Don't stand in the __ / Don't block up the hall."

Answer: (One Word, two syllables)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "The Times They Are A-Changin" appeared on which Bob Dylan studio album?

Answer: His third

Columbia Records released Bob Dylan's third studio album, "The Times They Are a-Changin'," on January 13, 1964. The album went gold, peaking at number 20 on the U.S. chart. It contains songs teeming with social commentary, including "Only a Pawn in Their Game," "With God On Our Side," and "The Ballad of Hollis Brown."
2. "The Times They Are A-Changin'" appeared on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." What was it ranked?

Answer: 59

It was Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" that topped this list at Number One. The magazine describes the "Times They Are A-Changin'" as "an immediate Sixties anthem." In the article containing the list, Dylan is quoted as saying, "I knew exactly what I wanted to say and who I wanted to say it to."
3. Music critic Michael Gray referred to this song as the "archetypal" what?

Answer: protest song

A British author, Michael Gray, published "The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia" in 2006. Gray described the song as giving the "inchoate sentiment" of the public "its clamour and outlet."
4. Which of these lines of the song is a reference to Mark 10:31?

Answer: And the first one now / Will later be last

Bob Dylan's songs are rife with biblical allusions, and "The Times They Are A-Changin' is no exception. In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus talks of the upheaval of the established order that comes from following him: "Truly I tell you...no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age- houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions- and to receive eternal life in the age to come.

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first." (Mark 10:29-31)
5. Which band covered this song on their 1965 album "Turn! Turn! Turn!"?

Answer: The Byrds

The album, which was released on December 6, 1965, also included a cover of Bob Dylan's "Lay Down Your Weary Tune." The Byrds were well known for their Dylan covers and recorded over twenty versions of his songs.
6. Which of the following musicians never recorded a cover of "The Times They Are A-Changin"?

Answer: Aretha Franklin

Billy Joel's live cover of the song was recorded on the B-side of his 1987 album "Kontsert." The Beach Boys covered it on side two of their 1965 album "Beach Boys Party!" Nina Simone recorded it on her 1969 album "To Love Somebody," along with two other Dylan covers: "Just Like Tom Thumb Blues" and "I Shall Be Released." The song has been covered numerous times, by musicians ranging from Simon & Garfunkel, Odetta, Cher, and Vice Squad to Tracy Chapman, Richie Havens, Phil Collins, and Flogging Molly.
7. Complete this lyric: "For the loser now / Will be later to __."

Answer: win

In keeping with the "first shall be last" theme of the Gospels, Dylan uses several images of change: "For the loser now / Will be later to win" and "The slow one now / Will later be fast / As the present now / Will later be last."
8. This song is arranged to repeat one rhyme sound multiple times per stanza. In the first stanza, Dylan rhymes roam, grown, bone, and what word?

Answer: stone

Each stanza contains four end words with the same rhyme sound. The first stanza includes the lines "Then you better start swimmin' / Or you'll sink like a stone." The second stanza rhymes pen, again, spin, and win.
9. In the fourth stanza, Dylan rhymes land, understand, command, and what word?

Answer: hand

The line in question is "Please get out of the new one / If you can't lend your hand." The third stanza rhymes call, hall, stalled, and walls.
10. Fill in the missing word from this lyric: "Don't stand in the __ / Don't block up the hall."

Answer: doorway

The song continues, "For he that gets hurt / Will be he who has stalled."

"The Times They Are A-Changin' was performed live by Jennifer Hudson, with the backing of a full gospel choir, at the 2018 March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. The protest was led by the survivors of the Parkland school shooting.
Source: Author skylarb

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