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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bangs felt that the Baby Boomer generation was ______, believing their every act was of great importance.
(a) Antisocial.
(b) Chauvinistic.
(c) Philanthropic.
(d) Narcissistic.

3. Bangs shows his distaste for Bowie's concert by comparing it to a ______ show with black people for props.
(a) Chicago.
(b) LA.
(c) New York.
(d) Vegas.

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

5. ______ is the singer of the Velvet Underground, the band that Bangs suggested was able to use a free style method.
(a) Lou Reed.
(b) Mick Jagger.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Iggy Pop.

Short Answer Questions

1. During their interview, Hell describes to Bangs the importance of self-hatred and ______ in music.

2. In the essay "I Saw God and/or Tangerine Dream", Bangs decides to get intoxicated on _______.

3. Bangs himself died of drug related causes about _____ years after the essay about Laughner was written.

4. Bangs tells Reed during their interview that "Metal Machine Music" is authentic and calls it a _______ career move.

5. In "Chicago at Carnegie Hall, Volumes I,II, III, & IV", Bangs mocks the album as being better as pieces of _____ than a work of music.

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