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Bob Dylan, ____ as the voiceof a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature - the only singer-songwriter to win the award.

• reflected

• regarded

• related

• thought

The 75-year-old Dylan now finds himself in the ____ of Winston Churchill, Thomas Mann and Rudyard Kipling as Nobel laureates.

• set

• group

• party

• company

The announcement was ____ with gasps in Stockholm's stately Royal Academy hall, followed - unusually - by some laughter.

• met

• encountered

• opposed

• confronted

Dylan's songs, such as Blown 'in the Wind and like a Rolling Stone captured ____ of rebellion, dissent and independence.

• soul

• sense

• spirit

• ghost

More than 50 years ___ Dylan is still writing songs and is often on tour, performing his dense poetic lyrics, sung in a something rasping voice.

• on

• by

• down

• over

Blown 'in the Wind, written in 1962, was considered one of the most eloquent folk songs of all ____________.

• times

• time

• epochs

• epoch

The song, in which Dylan told Americans "your sons and your daughters are _______ your command", was an anthem of the cilil rights movement and Vietnam War protests.

• beyond

• over

• off

• above

Dylan's influence on _____ music is profound.

• up-to-date

• present

• contemporary

• nowadays

Asked if he thought Dylan's Nobel lecture - traditionally ______ by the literature in Stockholm, Per Wastberg replied: "Let's hope so."

• released

• conducted

• conveyed

• delivered

Over the years, not everyone has agreed that Bob Dylan was a poet of the first ______ .

• class

• order

• degree

• standard