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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 bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Lasciviousness.
(d) Thought.

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

3. Other critics said of Iggy Pop and the band that the stage show was juvenile and they were musically ______.
(a) Talented.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Simplistic.
(d) Visionary.

4. Bangs argues that in order to make rock and roll good again, musicians have to stop trying to respect ______ styles.
(a) Jazz.
(b) Blues.
(c) Older.
(d) Younger.

5. Bangs purchases a record by _______ and he says it is so bad that "it gets stars for lousiness".
(a) The Starz.
(b) The Godz.
(c) The Legendz.
(d) The Heroz.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.

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

3. The worst examples of bands that treat their fans poorly Bangs refers to as ______, with James Taylor as the lead person in the group.

4. Bands describes some of his adolescent ______ exploits as a form of tribute to the power of the Troggs' music.

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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