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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Unpublishable Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bangs bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.
(a) Lasciviousness.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Thought.
(d) Sexuality.

2. In the essay "Screwing the System With Dick Clark", Bangs describes his meeting with Dick Clark, host of _______.
(a) Dick Van Dyke Show.
(b) The Tonight Show.
(c) American Groovestand.
(d) American Bandstand.

3. In the essay "Notes on Pil's Metal Box", Bangs wonders if Johnny ______'s music is just juvenile nastiness.
(a) Two-tone.
(b) Rotten.
(c) Appleseed.
(d) Terrible.

4. Bangs suggests that Reed's latest album was inspired by _______, which Bangs jokes could solve all the worlds problems.
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Opiates.
(d) Amphetamines.

5. Bangs describes a fantasy about eating ______ out of Elvis Presley's dead body, or part of the body to become Elvis himself.
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Marijuana brownies.
(c) Pills.
(d) LSD.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his essay "Fragments, 1976-1982", Bangs writes about the fact that he and his friends hate ______.

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

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

4. 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 ______.

5. Bangs praises the song ______ because he believes it reflects a democratic sexual relationship where the man is concerned with giving the woman an orgasm.

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