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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 second essay in the book is a review of Van Morrison's second album called _______.
(a) Velvet Underground.
(b) Astral Weeks.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) Madame George.

2. Lester Bangs refers to Count Five's album ______ as being their grungiest, and describes the reaction of other critics.
(a) Physical Graffiti.
(b) Carburetor Dung.
(c) Bangs.
(d) Psychotic Reaction.

3. The narrator of the story Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is a ______ year old man explaining rock and roll history to his grandchildren.
(a) Seventy.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Ninety.

4. Bangs spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.
(a) Astral Weeks.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Madame George.
(d) Velvet Underground.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.

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.

3. Rock crowds had become convinced that bands were supposed to be objects of ______.

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

5. Bangs concludes the essay by suggesting that ______ are making jokes to their listeners that play off all of their darkest fears and fantasies.

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