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

2. According to Bangs, groups should have resisted the urge to become arty and developed the free style used by _____ musicians.
(a) Rock.
(b) Blues.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Classical.

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

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

5. The old man also tells his grandchildren that _____ was assassinated at a show in 1973 - two years after the article was written.
(a) Eric Clapton.
(b) Jimmy Page
(c) Jeff Beck.
(d) Jimmy Hendrix.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bangs bemoans the turn popular music took towards _______ and politics in the late '60s, preferring instead the earlier sounds of the decade.

3. Bangs comes to like the song ______, which he first had dismissed as so much noise.

4. The narrator of the story Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung is a ______ year old man explaining rock and roll history to his grandchildren.

5. Bangs describes another band, _____, that was able to step into using a freestyle approach partly due to the fact that barely knew how to play their instruments.

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