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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. The narrator agonizes over buying Count Five's record _____ because it is mediocre but he eventually comes to love it.
(a) Psychotic Reaction.
(b) Physical Graffiti.
(c) Carburetor Dung.
(d) Bangs.

2. Bangs comes to like the song ______, which he first had dismissed as so much noise.
(a) T.V. Eye.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) Fun House.
(d) L.A. Blues.

3. Bangs argues that _____ 's antics helped to break down the wall between the musician and the listener.
(a) Alice Cooper.
(b) Eric Clapton.
(c) Iggy Pop.
(d) Jimmy Page.

4. The old man tells his grandchildren that by the end of the 1960s, the Yardbirds had transformed into the band ______.
(a) Led Zeppelin.
(b) Pink Floyd.
(c) Fleetwood Mac.
(d) Rolling Stones.

5. 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) Creem.
(d) L.A. Blues.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. Lester Bangs compares listening to amazing albums like those produced by Count Five as being similar to a first ______.

5. One group that Bangs felt did use a more freestyle approach was ________, but they were among the few.

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