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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 song ______ forced listeners to go out and live life instead of just being passive.
(a) I Just Sing.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Give it to me.
(d) Wild Thing.

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

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

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

5. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.
(a) Alice Cooper.
(b) Jimmy Page.
(c) Iggy Pop.
(d) Eric Clapton.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his write up of the song _____, Bangs fantasizes about the lead singer, Reg Presley, living out the lyrics.

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

3. According to Bangs, groups should have resisted the urge to become arty and developed the free style used by _____ musicians.

4. Bangs had written earlier about the Troggs and suggested that they were a ______ band.

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

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