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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once on tour with The Clash, Bangs gets into a food fight and gets his hair set on fire by _______.
(a) The drummer.
(b) The manager.
(c) The bass player.
(d) The guitar player.

2. Bangs believes that the album "Metal Machine Music" is the ultimate evolution of using _______.
(a) Acoustic instruments.
(b) Feedback.
(c) High frequencies.
(d) Machines.

3. 1976 saw the advent of _____ rock and people starting buying albums again.
(a) Bubblegum.
(b) Punk.
(c) Glam.
(d) Pop.

4. Bangs recounted an incident in which he referred to a band as _______ in front of a black couple.
(a) Slaves.
(b) Niggers.
(c) Untalented.
(d) Africans.

5. Bangs praises _______ for creating music with the Velvet Underground that was physically and mentally stimulating.
(a) David Bowie.
(b) J. Geils.
(c) Lou Reed.
(d) Luther Vandross.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bangs is disappointed in The Clash's behavior when their driver _____ gets into fight with a young fan.

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

3. Bangs argues that in order to make rock and roll good again, musicians have to stop trying to respect ______ styles.

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

5. The ______ seize the television stations and play all manner of different content, and one station in LA tries to play every movie ever made.

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