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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blowing It Up, Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bangs suggests that the genre of rock and roll is naturally ______ and thus musical illiteracy is consistent with rock and roll.
(a) Adolescent.
(b) Babyish.
(c) Childish.
(d) Adult.

2. 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) Sexuality.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Lasciviousness.

3. Bands describes some of his adolescent ______ exploits as a form of tribute to the power of the Troggs' music.
(a) Environmental.
(b) Political.
(c) Activist.
(d) Sexual.

4. Bangs describes another band, _____, that was able to step into using a freestyle approach partly due to the fact that barely knew how to play their instruments.
(a) Question Mark.
(b) The Stooges.
(c) The Velvet Underground.
(d) The Mysterians.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Other critics said of Iggy Pop and the band that the stage show was juvenile and they were musically ______.

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 ______.

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