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

2. 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.

3. Bangs suggests that the music of ______ was a natural reaction to the chaos of the late 1960s.
(a) The Stooges.
(b) The Black Crows.
(c) The Animals.
(d) The Yardbirds.

4. Bangs suggests that _____ is a dangerous thing because it makes people vulnerable to the universal pain of life.
(a) Love.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Music.

5. Bangs comes to like the song ______, which he first had dismissed as so much noise.
(a) T.V. Eye.
(b) L.A. Blues.
(c) Fun House.
(d) Rolling Stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lester Bangs refers to Count Five's album ______ as being their grungiest, and describes the reaction of other critics.

2. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.

3. Critic Jon Landau dismisses Bangs for his reviews and for his magazine _______ for giving similar albums positive reviews.

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

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