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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blowing It Up, 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) Bike ride.
(b) Orgasm.
(c) Time using drugs.
(d) Girlfriend.

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.
(a) L.A. Blues.
(b) Wild Thing.
(c) Fun House.
(d) T.V. Eye.

3. Bangs feels that Morrison has a unique talent to take a simple phrase and repeat it until it becomes something ______.
(a) Political.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Mystical.

4. Bangs claims that Count Five released a total of ______ albums and goes on to explain the merits of each.
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

5. The Yardbirds were a British Band that launched the musical careers of all of the following guitarists except ______.
(a) Jimmy Page.
(b) Jeff Beck.
(c) Neil Young.
(d) Eric Clapton.

Short Answer Questions

1. The second essay in the book is a review of Van Morrison's second album called _______.

2. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.

3. Bangs concludes the essay by suggesting that ______ are making jokes to their listeners that play off all of their darkest fears and fantasies.

4. Critic Jon Landau dismisses Bangs for his reviews and for his magazine _______ for giving similar albums positive reviews.

5. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.

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