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

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) L.A. Blues.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Wild Thing.
(d) Fun House.

3. Critic Jon Landau dismisses Bangs for his reviews and for his magazine _______ for giving similar albums positive reviews.
(a) Astral Weeks.
(b) Creem.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) L.A. Blues.

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

5. In the second section of the essay, Bangs suggests that some bands turned from simplistic rock into arty bands, including all of the following except ______.
(a) The Mysterians.
(b) Question Mark.
(c) Led Zeppelin.
(d) The Yardbirds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.

2. Bangs feels that Morrison has a unique talent to take a simple phrase and repeat it until it becomes something ______.

3. The narrator of the story Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is a ______ year old man explaining rock and roll history to his grandchildren.

4. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.

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

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