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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 the genre of rock and roll is naturally ______ and thus musical illiteracy is consistent with rock and roll.
(a) Babyish.
(b) Childish.
(c) Adolescent.
(d) Adult.

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

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

4. Critic Jon Landau dismisses Bangs for his reviews and for his magazine _______ for giving similar albums positive reviews.
(a) Astral Weeks.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) Creem.
(d) L.A. Blues.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.

3. According to Bangs, groups should have resisted the urge to become arty and developed the free style used by _____ musicians.

4. In "Of Pop and Pies and Fun", Bangs defends the band that is known as the _______, in particular front man Iggy Pop.

5. Other critics said of Iggy Pop and the band that the stage show was juvenile and they were musically ______.

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