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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 narrator of the story Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is a ______ year old man explaining rock and roll history to his grandchildren.
(a) Sixty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Ninety.

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

3. Bangs spends almost half of the review of the album talking about the song ______, which Bangs believes is about a transsexual man.
(a) Madame George.
(b) Velvet Underground.
(c) Astral Weeks.
(d) T.V. Eye.

4. The worst examples of bands that treat their fans poorly Bangs refers to as ______, with James Taylor as the lead person in the group.
(a) We-Rock.
(b) I-Rock.
(c) They-Rock.
(d) You-Rock.

5. Bands describes some of his adolescent ______ exploits as a form of tribute to the power of the Troggs' music.
(a) Sexual.
(b) Political.
(c) Activist.
(d) Environmental.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.

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

3. One group that Bangs felt did use a more freestyle approach was ________, but they were among the few.

4. Bangs also claims that the Troggs got their name from a group of ______ youth who were living in caves at the time of the band's formation.

5. Bangs feels that Morrison has a unique talent to take a simple phrase and repeat it until it becomes something ______.

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