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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Creemwork—Frauds, Failures, and Fantasies Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.
(a) Psychotic Reaction.
(b) Physical Graffiti.
(c) Carburetor Dung.
(d) Bangs.

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

4. Bangs bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.
(a) Thought.
(b) Lasciviousness.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Spirituality.

5. Bangs suggests that the song called ______ by the Troggs is about a countdown towards sexual penetration.
(a) I Just Sing.
(b) 66-5-4-3-2-1.
(c) 8675309.
(d) Wild Thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The band known as the Troggs were responsible for the smash hit ______.

2. Bangs claims that Count Five released a total of ______ albums and goes on to explain the merits of each.

3. Bangs considers horror movies to be the equivalent of ______ movies and writes a fake L.A. times article detailing an uprising against the television stations.

4. Bangs suggests that the genre of rock and roll is naturally ______ and thus musical illiteracy is consistent with rock and roll.

5. Bangs is using a deception because none of these other Count Five albums existed, and he was comparing himself to a ______ critic.

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