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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. In "Of Pop and Pies and Fun", Bangs defends the band that is known as the _______, in particular front man Iggy Pop.
(a) The Animals.
(b) The Stooges.
(c) The Yardbirds.
(d) The Black Crows.

2. Bangs suggested that rock bands had become pretentious and therefore deserved to get pied in the face like ______.
(a) Iggy Pop.
(b) Alice Cooper.
(c) Jimmy Page.
(d) Eric Clapton.

3. The second essay in the book is a review of Van Morrison's second album called _______.
(a) Madame George.
(b) T.V. Eye.
(c) Velvet Underground.
(d) Astral Weeks.

4. Although the essay begins by talking about the _______, the narrator changes the subject to a group called Count Five.
(a) Misfits.
(b) Led Zeppelin.
(c) Rolling Stones.
(d) Yardbirds.

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.
(a) Question Mark.
(b) The Mysterians.
(c) The Stooges.
(d) The Velvet Underground.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In Bangs' review of the Stooges second album, he talks about the "relentlessly driving" _____, which is in the first half of the album.

5. The narrator begins the story by talking about how great the music was in the year ______, particularly the Yardbirds.

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