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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. The band known as the Troggs were responsible for the smash hit ______.
(a) Marked for Death.
(b) Wild Thing.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) L.A. Blues.

2. Bangs suggests that _____ is a dangerous thing because it makes people vulnerable to the universal pain of life.
(a) Music.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Love.

3. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.
(a) Time using drugs.
(b) Orgasm.
(c) Girlfriend.
(d) Bike ride.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 ______.

2. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.

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

4. Bangs is using a deception because none of these other Count Five albums existed, and he was comparing himself to a ______ critic.

5. The second essay in the book is a review of Van Morrison's second album called _______.

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