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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bangs, groups should have resisted the urge to become arty and developed the free style used by _____ musicians.
(a) Classical.
(b) Blues.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Rock.

2. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.
(a) Jeff Beck.
(b) Eric Clapton.
(c) Neil Young.
(d) Jimmy Page.

3. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.
(a) Alice Cooper.
(b) Eric Clapton.
(c) Iggy Pop.
(d) Jimmy Page.

4. Bangs describes the fact that Iggy Pop transitioned from an imitation of______ on the last album to a more refined and unique form.
(a) Mick Jagger.
(b) Paul McCartney.
(c) Lou Reed.
(d) Robert Plant.

5. Bangs goes on to review the second album that the Stooges put out called _____ . Bangs admits that the first time he heard the album it sounded like nothing but noise.
(a) Fun House.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) L.A. Blues.
(d) Wild Thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs comes to like the song ______, which he first had dismissed as so much noise.

2. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.

3. Bangs describes another band, _____, that was able to step into using a freestyle approach partly due to the fact that barely knew how to play their instruments.

4. In "Of Pop and Pies and Fun", Bangs defends the band that is known as the _______, in particular front man Iggy Pop.

5. The second essay in the book is a review of Van Morrison's second album called _______.

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