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

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

3. Bangs had written earlier about the Troggs and suggested that they were a ______ band.
(a) Chauvinist.
(b) Inclusive.
(c) Elitist.
(d) Separatist.

4. Bangs argues that _____ 's antics helped to break down the wall between the musician and the listener.
(a) Alice Cooper.
(b) Eric Clapton.
(c) Jimmy Page.
(d) Iggy Pop.

5. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.
(a) Jeff Beck.
(b) Eric Clapton.
(c) Neil Young.
(d) Jimmy Page.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator begins the story by talking about how great the music was in the year ______, particularly the Yardbirds.

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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