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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blowing It Up, Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.
(a) Jeff Beck.
(b) Jimmy Page
(c) Eric Clapton.
(d) Jimmy Hendrix.

2. Bangs concludes the essay by suggesting that ______ are making jokes to their listeners that play off all of their darkest fears and fantasies.
(a) The Stooges.
(b) Question Mark.
(c) The Rolling Stones.
(d) Led Zeppelin.

3. Bangs suggests that the song ______ forced listeners to go out and live life instead of just being passive.
(a) T.V. Eye.
(b) Give it to me.
(c) I Just Sing.
(d) Wild Thing.

4. Rock crowds had become convinced that bands were supposed to be objects of ______.
(a) Sexual fantasy.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Worship.

5. Bangs admires the Troggs for making innocent _____ songs as well as incredibly sexual music.
(a) Political.
(b) Polemic.
(c) Sophisticated.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs praises the song ______ because he believes it reflects a democratic sexual relationship where the man is concerned with giving the woman an orgasm.

2. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.

3. Bangs had written earlier about the Troggs and suggested that they were a ______ band.

4. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.

5. Bangs bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.

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