View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blowing It Up, Part One.

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) Seventy.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Ninety.

2. Bangs is using a deception because none of these other Count Five albums existed, and he was comparing himself to a ______ critic.
(a) Astral Weeks.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) L.A. Blues.
(d) Creem.

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

4. The song _______ is listed on the first half of the Stooges second album which Bangs describes as the better half of the album.
(a) Carburetor Dung.
(b) Velvet Underground.
(c) T.V. Eye.
(d) L.A. Blues.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bangs goes on to review the second album that the Stooges put out called _____ . Bangs admits that the first time he heard the album it sounded like nothing but noise.

3. Bangs argues that _____ 's antics helped to break down the wall between the musician and the listener.

4. Although the essay begins by talking about the _______, the narrator changes the subject to a group called Count Five.

5. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 289 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample