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

2. The song _______ is listed on the first half of the Stooges second album which Bangs describes as the better half of the album.
(a) T.V. Eye.
(b) Velvet Underground.
(c) L.A. Blues.
(d) Carburetor Dung.

3. Bangs felt that the Baby Boomer generation was ______, believing their every act was of great importance.
(a) Antisocial.
(b) Narcissistic.
(c) Chauvinistic.
(d) Philanthropic.

4. Bangs suggests that the song called ______ by the Troggs is about a countdown towards sexual penetration.
(a) Wild Thing.
(b) 66-5-4-3-2-1.
(c) I Just Sing.
(d) 8675309.

5. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.
(a) Pink Floyd.
(b) Led Zeppelin.
(c) Rolling Stones.
(d) Fleetwood Mac.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bangs suggests that _____ is a dangerous thing because it makes people vulnerable to the universal pain of life.

3. 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.

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

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

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