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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The essay "James Taylor Marked for Death" begins with a discussion about the British band called ______.
(a) The Troggs.
(b) The Stooges.
(c) The Fugs.
(d) The Animals.

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

3. Bangs writes the latter half of his interview with Slade in an imitation of a _______ cockney accent.
(a) British.
(b) Spanish.
(c) French.
(d) American.

4. When Bangs takes the instrument home with him and attempts to play it, a dispute with ______ erupts.
(a) The landlady.
(b) John Coltrane.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) His girlfriend.

5. Bangs considers horror movies to be the equivalent of ______ movies and writes a fake L.A. times article detailing an uprising against the television stations.
(a) Rock and Roll.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Blues.
(d) Classical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs suggests that he likes the album Metal Box because it expresses the _____ that Bangs feels.

2. Bangs shows his distaste for Bowie's concert by comparing it to a ______ show with black people for props.

3. Once on tour with The Clash, Bangs gets into a food fight and gets his hair set on fire by _______.

4. In the essay "Notes on Pil's Metal Box", Bangs wonders if Johnny ______'s music is just juvenile nastiness.

5. Bangs feels that Richard Hell's style of _____ rock is important because he still feels things in a world where most don't.

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