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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bangs believes that David Bowie's concert performance was an attempt to appropriate ______ culture.
(a) Latino.
(b) Black.
(c) Indigenous.
(d) Asian.

2. When Bangs takes the instrument home with him and attempts to play it, a dispute with ______ erupts.
(a) His girlfriend.
(b) The landlady.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) John Coltrane.

3. Bangs finds the lyrics on Jethro Tull's new album "Thick as a _____" to be self -righteous.
(a) Block.
(b) Slab.
(c) Stick.
(d) Brick.

4. Bangs begins the essay "Do the Godz Speak Esperanto" by discussing ______ records which he believes is the most underground record label in the country.
(a) RCA.
(b) IBM.
(c) ESP.
(d) Columbia.

5. Bangs concludes his review of Barry White by comparing White's songs to ______.
(a) Incest.
(b) Love.
(c) Rape.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van Morrison's second album was released in _____ and Bangs reports that it became a source of hope for him.

2. Bangs asserts that "the Guess Who is God" in his essay "The Guess Who: Live at the _____".

3. The narrator begins the story by talking about how great the music was in the year ______, particularly the Yardbirds.

4. Bangs suggests that the song ______ forced listeners to go out and live life instead of just being passive.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Bangs decides to chase his landlady back to her apartment as he is playing the saxophone?

2. What does Bangs believe the reasoning behind Iggy Pop's diving into the audience and other stage antics?

3. What does Bangs believe about the show of David Bowie when he goes to promote it in his work?

4. What does the J. Geils Band invite Bangs to do when he is trying to cover their concert?

5. What does Bangs claim is the inspiration for the band name, The Troggs, though some aren't sure this is the case?

6. What does Bangs have to say about the albums that Chicago puts out during this lifetime?

7. While Bangs doesn't disagree with the assessment of the Stooges, what does he believe the value of their music is?

8. What does Jon Landau do in response to the way that Lester Bangs writes about music, according to the essay?

9. What is the old man in the first essay trying to explain to his children, though Lester Bangs is the one who wrote it?

10. What does Bangs believe the song "Wild Thing" causes the listeners to do, or to at least consider doing in their lives?

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